The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group Making a PDF With OpenOffice.org Trevor Gosbell

The open source office suite OpenOffice.org has print-to-PDF functionality built-in. Unfortunately it is a little bit fiddly. Basically you need to indicate in two places that you want PDF output - when you choose the printer driver and when you choose the output format. Hopefully future versions will streamline the process.

Here's what you need to do:

• select File Print (Control-P)

In the print dialog:

• Select Name: "PDF Converter" (your converter may have a slightly different name)
• Select "Print to file" and the "Save as" dialog appears
• Input the file name including the .PDF extension
• Select File type: "PDF"
• Click Save
• Back in print dialog - click OK

Check the output in a PDF viewer.
[ See example in Figure 5 in previous article.]

Reprinted from the October 2003 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia

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