On Wednesday 13 September 2006 12:03, stephan beal wrote:
i'll second that. OOo produces astoundingly good PDF output. And it can import Word docs really well.
Hmm, I found that the PDFs produced by OO's internal PDF convertor are _huge_ compared to the same file printed to KPrinter and then converted to PDF there. So, I tend to use KPrinter's converter most of the time. I haven't had problems with this, but if there are odd characters or otherwise broken output from there, then yes, the OO one does work very well, and might fix the problem. Now, at the other end of the toolchain, I agree that OO's import of MS document formats is very good, it still breaks sometimes. Therefore, how about (as an alternative route) installing a generic PostScript printer driver on the Windows side (haven't used Crossover so don't know how this would be done there), printing to PostScript from Word / Excel, then using the already-mentioned ps2pdf tool to make the PDF. If OO can't import the MS documents well enough, then perhaps ps2pdf will do a good enough job on the PostScript.