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 http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
