[KLUG Members] StarOffice to PDF

[John Bridleman]

* Bryan-TheBS-Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org) wrote:
> 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.

Seems like a lot of work and I think a little is lost during each conversion. 

I was able to get it run through Adobe Acrobat on a windows machine. I also tried it the way Adam suggested. The Acrobat file was a lot smaller and looked great. The StarOffice conversion ps2pdf file was huge and added 2 pages to the file. (4 pages vs 6 pages). 

We still have a long way to go regarding pdf files.
 
Thanks for your guidance.
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John Bridleman / john@bridleman.org