On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 14:58 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:13 -0800, Steve C. Thompson wrote:
> > Group,
> > 
> > My wife is using a WinXP machine with OOo1.1.4.  Her Impress
> > presentation is going well.  However, she wants to share the 30-slide
> > presentation with her colleagues in PDF form, but in handout view.  In
> > other words the (much loved) PDF export feature only converts the
> > document into a one slide per page PDF document.  Moreover, the PDF is
> > colored; but BW is desired for printout.
> > 
> > Is there away to do this?  You can print out the handout view, but can
> > you convert the handout view to PDF.
> > 
> > I tried ``printing to file'' on her machine, but it wants to convert to
> > PRN, a format that I'm not familiar with.  On my GNU/Linux machine I can
> > ``print to file'' into PS.  Regardless, this is a work around at best:
> > what is really desired is more PDF export options.
> > 
> 
> YOu only want handouts and you have setup the handout format you want?
> File > Print > Options is where to look. BTW, there is information in
> Help on this subject that may assist you. Also there is some good
> manuals, HOW-TOs et cetera at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ that
> I encourage you to explore.

And save it to a file. (I forgot to add this part) THere are a number of
tools that will do this. Try renaming the filename.PRN to filename.ps
before further processing with whatever tool you choose. With a search
string of "convert PRN file to pdf  on windows" (sans quotes) on google
provided 33,500 possibles.
-- 
Documentation Co-Lead
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