[cw-discuss] MS word and pdf export

[Peter Lord]

Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote, On 10/08/2006 04:48 PM:
> Install OpenOffice, it will run natively on windows or Linux, read 
> Word documents, and it supports native PDF export.

I've found openoffice doesn't support all of word features, especially 
diagrams.  I need to use word, hence crossover office.


>
> 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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