[cw-discuss] MS word and pdf export

[Doug B]

Well, I'm going to break my own guidelines here.  When someone asks how 
to do something using a windows program rather than a native linux 
program, I expect they have a good reason why they don't want to or 
can't use a native one.

In this case, though, I will suggest OpenOffice.  Since you aren't 
changing anything in the document, see if OO will open it and retain 
the formating you need.  If it does, file > export as pdf.  Lots of 
options in the export dialog.

I don't have any complex *.doc files, but I did open one in OO, insert 
an image, and export as pdf.  Formating was retained, picture was 
there, and it was searchable.

Hope that helps


On Sunday 08 October 2006 10:03, 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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