Fernando wrote: > Hi Duane, > >> > I have some slideshow presentations created using StarOffice, and I'd >> > like to convert them to PDF. Looks easy -- just print to file and run >> > ps2pdf from gostscript. >> > >> > But the end result is that all slides get rotated by 90 degrees. >> >> I would also be interested in an easy way, but I can tell you the hard >> way, which I have used numerous times :-) > > I noticed two problems: first one, some slideshows fail on ps2pdf. > They use the same background, same fonts and are smaller than others > that do not fail. I could not find a pattern yet. Second, the pdf files > look very bad on xpdf and gv. Besides being too slow to render (I guess > I can fix this by using only the standard pdf fonts), xpdf and gv seem > not to use the page size from the pdf file, so the slides get truncated > "out of page".
Yes, xpdf is VERY slow at rendering even modestly complex drawings. Unfortunately that is a fundamental problem with xpdf. Acroread renders the same files very fast, and with very nice results, so I mostly use it. I have never actually tried reading PDF files with gv; I did not even know that it could do it. But since the main reason I create PDFs is to send them to people running Windoze and Macs, who will always be using Acroread, I assume that anything that looks good in that program and prints nicely is acceptable for my purposes. As far as why some slides fail, I would just look at the postscript file and see what is different in that small section that controls the page size and orientation. I am not sure what you meant by them being "smaller". Not 8 1/2x11? Different page sizes and printer settings are likely to require that mkpdf be tweaked. And printing from a different application definitely will. Typically, I figure out the required changes by creating a one page document, print it to a postscript file, and then open it in an editor and tweak those changes manually, checking the results with ps2pdf and acroread until they come out right. The main complication with this method is determining a "translate" value that puts the document within the visible area. Try modifying the translate values I use, and you will see the affect. The wrong translate values can quickly push the document completely off the visible area, leaving you with an apparently blank page. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
