Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> >From that page: >> It is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small >> portions of text. > > I don't think that this practicable, if you continue to work with your > document for repeated 'edit, print' cycles. > In my experiments so far it's worked fine, but I will have to look a

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dotan Cohen wrote: > But I just > discovered this OOo extension which allows the user to save the > document as PDF with the ODF file embedded for editing: > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport > > This is, in my opinion, the perfect document format. The only thing > mi

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Think there is a little confusion here that needs to be cleared up: > > ODF if not supposed to be a printable format.  It is the native format used > by OOo to store its working files for editing, not printing - it is NOT a > page description language like PDF or PostScript. > I now know that. B

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread randall
Matthew Smith wrote: It would certainly be possible to write a command-line application to convert ODF to PostScript, PDF etcetera. The document format is open so there is nothing stopping anyone from cobbling something together with, say Perl and XSLT. If nobody has done this and you don't

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Dotan Cohen at 2009-03-17 08:24... Or you can use the "cups-pdf" package. That's what I am using. However, it appears that cups cannot accept an ODF file as input. I suppose that OOo is internally converting the ODF to PS for printing. Think there is a little confusion here that needs t

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Or you can use the "cups-pdf" package. > That's what I am using. However, it appears that cups cannot accept an ODF file as input. I suppose that OOo is internally converting the ODF to PS for printing. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Wagner
* Tzafrir Cohen 15.03.2009 > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:47:43PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I just noticed that I can in fact print PDF files this way, so the > > problem is that I am trying to print an ODT file. How can I convert > > that ODT to PDF on the command line? I have googled that befo

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
> As mentioned in previous threads: abirod should be able to do that. > Thanks, Tzafrir. I had STFW, but I obviously did not STFA. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:47:43PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I just noticed that I can in fact print PDF files this way, so the > problem is that I am trying to print an ODT file. How can I convert > that ODT to PDF on the command line? I have googled that before and > could not figure it out, ev

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
I just noticed that I can in fact print PDF files this way, so the problem is that I am trying to print an ODT file. How can I convert that ODT to PDF on the command line? I have googled that before and could not figure it out, even after installing OOo scripts and other nasties. -- Dotan Cohen