[KLUG Members] StarOffice to PDF

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

John Bridleman wrote:
> Thanks. I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm using a Windows
> machine.

Yeah, I just realized that might not be totally applicable to what you
were trying to do.  Sorry.

> The Word file I have was donated to me by a customer. I was hoping
> there was a way to make StarOffice do what it's supposed to do or
> if there was another way to take a Word file, on a Linux box, and
> make a pdf.

I usually take Word files, convert them to RTF and use an RTF to LaTeX
converter.  Once it is in LaTeX, you can convert to just about anything,
SGML, DocBook, PDF, etc...  Because of its age, then extensiveness of
its macro/add-on base, [La]TeX has become pretty much the "base" from
which anything else can be derrived.

I also use "ReLyX" to pull the LaTeX into the LyX GUI if I want to do
WYSIWYM editing.

-- TheBS

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