Issue 1799 - Integrate PDF as a document format or printing option
Summary: Integrate PDF as a document format or printing option
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: Other Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: philipp.lohmann
QA Contact: issues@ui
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Reported: 2001-10-06 00:13 UTC by mikemaccana
Modified: 2003-03-13 10:28 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description mikemaccana 2001-10-06 00:13:52 UTC 
Many users use PDF as part of their workflow. This has long been available in 
Star/OpenOffice, but only to users who were aware of the various steps needed 
to create PDF output. 

I.e., to generate PDF currently, users must know that: 
* `Print to File' generates PostScript
* Postscript can be turned into pdf with the ps2pdf command (and the syntax 
and command line knowledge involved)
* ps2pdf as shipped on most Unix platforms is buggy and won't handle certain 
filenames. 

This levels of knowledge makes it quite difficult for new users o generate PDF 
files. 

PDF should be avaliable as a special `export' document format or via the 
printing dialog.
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-10-08 15:10:19 UTC 
Reassigned to Hasan.
Comment 2 h.ilter 2001-10-09 12:02:39 UTC 
Linx, please have a look for this.
Comment 3 philipp.lohmann 2001-10-09 14:59:07 UTC 
This is what the option to create a PDF printer in spadmin is for. 
Please start spadmin and create a PDF printer (you should either 
have ghostscript or acrobat distiller in your path) and simply print 
to that printer to create a PDF.
Comment 4 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:51:52 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 5 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:52:42 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 6 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:27:53 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.
Comment 7 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:28:15 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.