[cw-discuss] MS word and pdf export

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak]

Install OpenOffice, it will run natively on windows or Linux, read Word 
documents, and it supports native PDF export.

Peter Lord wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been here before, but I'm wondering what the latest wisdom is for 
> this problem.
>
> I need to convert a word document to pdf - this includes metadata ( 
> title, summary etc ) and allow searches in the pdf.
> Right now I use kprinter - this uses ghostscript to covert the 
> postscript from crossover office to pdf.  Although this works fine, it 
> doesn't pass through the metadata and the pdf isn't searchable.
>
> I suspect I need a word plugin which can directly export a pdf ... but 
> the ones I've tried all seem to go through a printer driver which 
> crossover office doesn't seem to like.
>
> Are there any word plugins which export pdf and work under crossover 
> office ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete
>
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