Issue 5168 - Enhance OOo to use GhostScript on Windows to create PDF files
Summary: Enhance OOo to use GhostScript on Windows to create PDF files
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P4 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2002-05-22 17:28 UTC by aschrage
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description aschrage 2002-05-22 17:28:05 UTC 
I think it would be a good idea to integrate OOo with GhostScript on the Windows
platform to create PDF files.
GhostScript is also open source for Windows and so OOo should benefit from that
(I know that it is possible already on Linux).
This should be possible for all OOo applications (Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress).
Sorry that I put it under the word processor component, but I did not know what
component to choose.
Comment 1 Joost Andrae 2002-05-24 15:14:28 UTC 
Joost->Ansgar: Everyone is able to install Ghostscript for himself.
Why should OpenOffice.org bundle it ?
Comment 2 aschrage 2002-05-24 16:09:26 UTC 
Ansgar->Joost: Sorry, but I think there is a misunderstanding. I did
not meant that GhostScript should be bundled with OOo.
What I meant was that there should be an interface in OOo to use
GhostScript to create directly a PDF-File. Currently it is necessary
to print to an installed PostScript printer with the output as a file.
Then I have to manually invoke GhostScipt to convert it to a PDF-File.
It would be ideally to have a switch in the print dialog to directly
create the PDF-File with the help of GhostScript (if it is already
installed on the user's system).
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2002-09-18 16:29:27 UTC 
Export to pdf is already working in last week's StarOffice internal
build (srx643z onwards). The soon-to-come 643c of oo.org will not yet
have it (it's based on , but it should be integrated in the next one.
-> Already underway. Changed resolution to "Remind".
Comment 4 thorsten.ziehm 2003-05-23 10:22:17 UTC 
=> works in current version OOo 1.1 Beta2! => closed