---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gene Young <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [users] PDF Export Problem To: [email protected]
Pu Taang Zomi wrote: > This is a problem I encountered today. > > 1. I wrote a document in OpenOffice.org Writer 3.0.1. I saved it as > Man.odt. > > When I tried export as PDF, I got the following: > > > == > > Confirm Save As > > > Man.odt already exists. > You saved it as a PDF with an ODT extension. If you force open it in adobe I believe you will see your document. When you export as a pdf, delete the .odt extension. You should have Automatic File Extension checked as well. -- Gene Y. ==== ---------- For warded message ---------- From: Keith Bates <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:35 PM Subject: [users] Re: [openoffice] [users] PDF Export Problem To: [email protected] On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:19:51 -0500 Pu Taang Zomi <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a problem I encountered today. > > 1. I wrote a document in OpenOffice.org Writer 3.0.1. I saved it as > Man.odt. > > When I tried export as PDF, I got the following: > > > I clicked OK, and when I looked at the document on my hard disk, it > was not in PDF, but in ODT. > > == > > > > 2. I launched a new document and wrote the same in ODT again, but I > did not save it. It was titled Untitled 1. > > I tried to export as PDF, and saved as Man.pdf. I found out that the > document was in PDF, not in ODT. > > == > > > There must be something I did wrong. How can I export a saved ODT > document as PDF again? I just tried it on my system - OOo 3.0.1 Unbuntu Linux- and export to PDF works fine. In the second case, did it save as a pdf or did it really save as an odt file with .pdf on the end instead of odt? Did you use the "Export to PDF" button on the toolbar or did you go to File- "Export as PDF" or even File- Export then select PDF format. So many options to do the one thing! It's possible that trying different methods would yield different results. For example using the toolbar button just asks for a filename and location, but going File-"Export to PDF" lets you sepcify a whole lot of other options... I usually just click on the button so I was surprised to find the other method takes a different result -- God bless you, Keith Bates www.new-life.org.au ===== Dear Gene and Keith, Thank you for your replies. I must have done something wrong when I installed extensions. The problem has now been solved: I manually added .pdf when I saved. If I do not add .pdf, it is saved as ODT. If I add .pdf, it is saved as PDF. Before yesterday, I did not need to manually add .pdf. =====
