HOWTO: Create PDF Documents in Dapper

[tubunu]

You can easily create a PDF file with OpenOffice.org Writer. Just create your document and hit export directly as PDF.

[dbott67]

You can easily create a PDF file with OpenOffice.org Writer. Just create your document and hit export directly as PDF.

Yes... it says so the very first line in the post:

In OpenOffice, there is a command in the File menu 'Export as PDF'. For other applications, you will need to do the following:

However, if you wanted to create a PDF from Firefox or Evolution or any other application, you would need to follow the HOWTO.

-Dave

[Tibor60]

It works fine with 1 page from Firefox, but if several pages, I always have the same problem:
the last row of the page is divided horizontally and the missing lower part is on the next page. I tried to play with the page setup, margins, printer properties, but nothing help...

Can somebody help me?

[dbott67]

Can you post a screenshot? I'm not sure I can picture the problem... what website are your trying to print from?

Here's a screenshot of the PDF output of this page.

-Dave

[Gen2ly]

Appreciate the info. I was trying to save a webpage to print a little bit later. This tutorial today helped me do that on Efty.

[dannyboy79]

if I own the real version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Pro (or is it 6.0? )which has the distiller installed in Win XP Pro (which allows a person to print anything to pdf from any app) and I am sharing that printer, is there a way that I can use the distiller on WinXP Pro to print to pdf within ubuntu, dapper or edgy? Or do I have to follow your guide to print to pdf from anywhere? I haven;'t tried it yet but I suppose all I would have to do is try.

[dbott67]

if I own the real version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Pro (or is it 6.0? )which has the distiller installed in Win XP Pro (which allows a person to print anything to pdf from any app) and I am sharing that printer, is there a way that I can use the distiller on WinXP Pro to print to pdf within ubuntu, dapper or edgy? Or do I have to follow your guide to print to pdf from anywhere? I haven;'t tried it yet but I suppose all I would have to do is try.

You could always try it... I don't know if it will work though. Let us know hoe you make out.

-Dave

[motin]

FYI- looks like this trick works in Edgy as well.

Just use driver name postscript-color-printer-rev4

As well as in Feisty. Driver name is simply "postscript color" however.

[dannyboy79]

As well as in Feisty. Driver name is simply "postscript color" however.

you should make a new post and call it the same thing for the title but with Fiesty otherwise many people won't ever see this since the title say Dapper.

[dbott67]

I updated the title on the first post to include Edgy & Feisty.

-Dave