Equivalent of acrobat writer on linux?

[Patrick Allen]

Alex Maynard wrote:
> Just wondered if anyone knows of an easy way to make pdf files out MS word
> type files on linux? I'm using abiword, but glad to switch if something
> else works better.

I just used Open Office 1.1 to open an '97 Word .doc file and convert it 
to a .pdf

The New Times Roman font the original document was done in did not 
display very well in Oo.  But it looked ok after the conversion to .pdf

There were some changes made to page break locations.  This might cause 
a problem with a larger document.

Open Office has been accused of being too resource heavy by some.  But 
if you're using a PIII (or better) with enough ram, you shouldn't have 
too much of a performance issue.



P Allen
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