How does this suit your purpose?
<http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3772>
Tom
On 7 Mar 2007, at 19:48, Stuart McGraw wrote:
Johnny Andersson wrote:
I THINK you can write a macro that does this for you everytime that
document
is saved or closed or something like that. However, last time I was
looking
for how to start a macro from events like that, I couldn't find it,
but I
HAVE seen it somewhere…
Johnny Andersson
2007/3/7, Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wednesday March 07 2007 11:36 am, Stuart McGraw wrote:
I have been using Writer for 2 days now, pretty nice!
But how do I write a Makefile rule to update my .pdf
file when my .odt file changes? Didn't see anything
helpful in help or googling.
(OOwriter 2.0 running in FC6)
Thanks!
My suggestion is that you create a new .pdf everytime you update
the .odt file. Click the Save icon to save the changes first and then
click the PDF icon to export the changed file to .pdf. Export it to
the same file each time. (This overwrites the .pdf file.) It only
takes one additional click. (You could do the same thing by using
File > Export as PDF. Although it might give you a few more
choices if
you have special settings you are using in the PDF format.)
Dan
Thanks for the responses.
The problem is I don't need or want to update the pdf for every edit
of the
odt file. I make a lot of small changes, but eventually do a "make
distribution"
which does lots of stuff with other files in addition to the Open
Office file
(which I use for documentation of the other files). This is when I
want to be
sure the pdf file is current, because the make will package it up with
the other stuff. Re Dan's response, relying on me to remember to
manually
update the pdf is not a good solution (trust me! :-)
Dia, for example, (which I use for some of my documentation) has command
line options to do an export, so in my makefile I can have Dia update
its
png file is it's needed. But for Writer, although I see command
line options to
print a document, there doesn't seem to be any command line options
to export
a document.
I was hoping there were such options, or would soon be such options, or
there was some other way to do this. It would be unfortunate if OO
documents
can't be integrated into a project build system. I don't want to go
back to
text READMEs!
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