[cw-discuss] MS word and pdf export

[Daniel O'Donnell]

On Sun, 2006-08-10 at 19:14 +0100, Peter Lord wrote:
> Peter Lord wrote, On 10/08/2006 05:28 PM:
> > 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.
> 
> Actually, I take that back.  I've just installed 2.0.3 and it handles 
> diagrams pretty well ... much better than the last version I tried.  The 
> pdf export supports metadata and searches :-)
> 
> But, since this is a crossover office list ;-) , is there a way to 
> achieve the same thing from within wine/crossover/word ?

This is an interesting question: wine/crossover is presumably intended
to run native windows software for when there is no equivalent or the
equivalent is not useful for whatever reason--e.g. a secretary might be
trained in word and Open Office is different enough that it is not worth
dealing with--although personally at that point I'd wonder about the
wisdom of switching to Linux on his/her box.

But what about cases where a native linux program does a specific
function as or better than an equivalent Windows program--like PDF
conversion. It seems to me a waste of effort working on that aspect.

-dan

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 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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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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Director, Digital Medievalist Project
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University of Lethbridge
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