[cw-discuss] MS word and pdf export

[Daniel O'Donnell]

When I was a windows user, I did two things: printed to Ghostscript
and/or Adobe's Word2PDF macros. Both worked wellish, though not as well
as Open Office's PDF maker. I just can't see the advantage in making
sure either of the windows ways work in wine: if you need to be on
Linux, better tools exist; if you need to use Word instead of these
tools, you are almost certainly better off working in a Windows
environment.

This seems to me a different type of issue than, for example, using wine
because shockwave doesn't work in Linux, or because your finance office
requires IE for some specific form. There a wine based solution makes
sense because there is no native linux solution and the tasks are
relatively secondary (although if I played shockwave games all day or
worked in finance at my university, I can see how I'd probably just use
a windows box for those tasks).

Anyway, it is a case of what one sees the function of wine to be, I
suppose, or why one prefers one operating system to another. For me,
Linux provides better or as good native equivalents of the software I
used to use on Windows except for one or two minor tasks I occasionally
need to do: for those I use crossover. But if I was working in an area
where windows tools were an absolute primary necessity, I think I'd
probably use the dark side of my dual boot more often.

-dan

On Sun, 2006-08-10 at 16:02 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2006-08-10 at 19:14 +0100, Peter Lord wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>But, since this is a crossover office list ;-) , is there a way to 
> >>achieve the same thing from within wine/crossover/word ?
> >>    
> >>
> >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
> >  
> >
> I prefer to use a native solution in general, but if I found a 
> "crosover" solution, then I could also take it to a Windows computer and 
> use it :-)
> 
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