OpenOffice, if I want to save a file as a PDF, I click on the icon and the file appears in the folder. However, when I go to open the file, I get an error message alerting me to:
configure Ghostview
When I go to the Ghostview link, I'm not sure what to do or what to correct. The file is also 'incomplete', a two-page document may only show the first one or two paragarphs.
Yeah typical for PDF output from OO. Ghostscript lags in features in its GPL version. A lot of software, like OO and scribus, use new pdf features which the GPL ghostscript is unable to handle. This of course is going to royally mess up people's printing systems, which invariable use ghostscript as renderer. Whether this is a smart decision on the part of OO & Co is debatable. Try xpdf to view the file. Even better, forget about OO pdf output altogether, it's shockingly bad to not give you any control over it. For portable pdf files, you *must* embed fonts (subsetting is good enough). OO pdf export can't do this, which turns this function into a "nice thought" at best and a "strong invitation to create output which is useless for reliable interchange" at worst. Export PS, then run pstopdf14. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.