QUOTE(mastercomputers @ Apr 1 2006, 12:00 AM)

Hey XIII,

Well I assume you use Windows, I use Linux myself and a tool called ps2pdf (I think it's available for Windows too), in which the file I write first, is a postscript file (.ps extension), then I convert to a pdf from their, the default values of ps2pdf is enough, e.g. UseFlateCompression=true and CompressPages=true. What ps2pdf is suppose to do is create compatible Adobe PDF files, it succeeds in my case.

I use liux as a primary os but sometimes i need to use windows, some programs i can't use on linux like the software i use to follow the stock market live and some others.

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If I'm using OpenOffice, I export the document as a PDF, open it in a PostScript editor then save it as a ps, then use the ps2pdf command. It turned my 500KB file into ~50KB compressing it 90%, I even tested it by emailing it to people and seeing how it would look on their computers, it appeared exactly how it should have, though I must admit I don't splash documents around with too many fonts that would not be available across different systems otherwise embedding fonts would increase the filesize but it did have borders and font formatting, which remained perfect.

is there any PostScript editor to work on windows?, if i find something like that i will be able to convert files to pdf by ps2pdf as you do even on windows, now i think i could do it on linux, but what is the best PostScript do you recommend as i didn't use one before.

Check if Adobe can save as Postscript files.

On Linux you can use any of the Postscript Editors, like KPDF or KGhostView or better yet, just use the other tool that GhostScript gives you which is pdf2ps. The reason I used the editor was so when I viewed it, I could see if it looked any different, and then when I saved it as .ps, I opened it to make sure it still looked the same.

Maybe I should write a full on tutorial on this with screenshots, etc and step by step process of what I did. I should try and find more information on this though and see if there's any better techniques than this.


Cheers,


MC

Well, I don't care if MS hates or likes OO, but I use OpenOffice as my Office, but I rarely need a lot of those functions and features it offers, usually just to print documents and write stuff. Its main feature is that it is free. On Windows I also have OfficeXP and for sometime now I need to use it, because my IT exam is coming and it won't have Linux or Open Office, so I need to get used to it (Windows and Office (Word/Excel/etc.) ) but it will be quite easy, there is nothing fancy there. Pascal is what I need to get deeper, they require to write quite hard programs. But do you sometimes feel that OO is slow ? this is the only downside I feel about it, maybe because it is written in java, or maybe not.

ofcourse i use most of the times OO only
now the OpenOffice 2.0 is lot improved than it ie earlier version... and ofcourse but more to be done in this...

Openoffice is pretty good, but not as good as microsoft office..

I still say OpenOffice is the best office suite, except for one problem, OOo Impress is not impressing me with the confusing UI.

Everything else works well though...

xboxrulz

there is only one feature that i really lack when using open office: thesuras. it is such a useful tool on ms office and i really miss it on oO. other than that i dont really find very many differences between the two programs. that makes oO better as it costs nothing.

when i reinstall my windows in the next few days i dont think i will be bothering with ms office even though i own it - so there you go.

Well when I first bought my computer I decided I would have to buy Microsoft Office for all my document needs as such, but then I discovered that OpenOffice was already installed on the system so I thought I'd give it a go.

That was about a year ago and since I have found no real need to by Microsofts Office and have found OpenOffice to be great, reliable, simple to use and good for lots of different needs.

Guess I must be another user with "limited needs"... bloody Microsoft!