Equivalent of acrobat writer on linux?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:44:28PM -0400, Patrick Allen wrote:
> 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.

I find OOo on Debian is actualyl rather well behaved, although they have
put quite a bit of work into improving it's behaviour.  The prelink
option certainly improves load speed.

Lennart Sorensen
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