Greg Freemyer wrote:

All,

I want to create multi-format document.

The first page or two would be cover letter. The later pages would be spreadsheets.

Can that done in OO?

I'm pretty certain it can, but I haven't tried it. -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Freemyer wrote:

All,

I want to create multi-format document.

The first page or two would be cover letter. The later pages would be spreadsheets.

Can that done in OO?

I have done this with OO by OLE linking to spreadsheets. However, there are a number of subtle gotchas (as in M$ but different ones exist in M$. I have a bugzilla still extant about a formatting issue in OO with such an import). The only environment which I have worked with that did this consistently with minimum grief was Lotus.... There are a number of ways of linking a spreadsheet to a document in OO some dynamic, some not, all have different pluses and minuses. I would suggest experiment to find the method that suits your requirements. If you are talking about M$ ability to include an embedded spreadsheet OO does have this capability. I have run into problems with this arranging largish spreadsheet layouts, so only make use of it for fairly trivial calculations.

Can it be exported into a MS Office supported combined doc?

Never tried this. I think the major issue here is if the documents are linked dynamically then not only would the main document need to be converted, but any linked spreadsheets. I would suspect this would would work if the spreadsheet was fairly basic. I would be intrigued to find out how well this works. The other problem was portability with dynamically linked documents, I seem to remember issues with paths of required dynamically linked documents causing problems on occasions.

(Its been a while since I did this even in MS, but I assume MS still supports it.)

Thanks Greg

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Check out this website, Greg. http://www.linux.com/feature/36815 It talks about 3 diffferent tools to combine PDFs, including pdfsam. I personally used GhostScript last time I had to do it on Windows, since I have it installed already. But it seems as if pdfsam is easier... Allen Zhu allen.jaloola@gmail.com Eddie Izzard - "I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from." On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

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Greg Freemyer wrote:

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All,

I want to create multi-format document.

The first page or two would be cover letter. The later pages would be spreadsheets.

Can that done in OO?

I have done this with OO by OLE linking to spreadsheets.

However, there are a number of subtle gotchas (as in M$ but different ones exist in M$. I have a bugzilla still extant about a formatting issue in OO with such an import). The only environment which I have worked with that did this consistently with minimum grief was Lotus....

There are a number of ways of linking a spreadsheet to a document in OO some dynamic, some not, all have different pluses and minuses. I would suggest experiment to find the method that suits your requirements.

If you are talking about M$ ability to include an embedded spreadsheet OO does have this capability. I have run into problems with this arranging largish spreadsheet layouts, so only make use of it for fairly trivial calculations.

...

Can it be exported into a MS Office supported combined doc?

Never tried this. I think the major issue here is if the documents are linked dynamically then not only would the main document need to be converted, but any linked spreadsheets. I would suspect this would would work if the spreadsheet was fairly basic. I would be intrigued to find out how well this works.

The other problem was portability with dynamically linked documents, I seem to remember issues with paths of required dynamically linked documents causing problems on occasions.

I do not think M$ would support a combined document but to get around that, create the document in OO, convert to PDF and then send to the M4 folk. Portable Document Format to the rescue :)

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