From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ee2pS-0007hU-1M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:58:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAL3vu4c023080; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:57:56 GMT Received: from ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony4.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony4.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAL3s33u003754 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:54:05 GMT Received: from 203-59-213-82.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.213.82]) by ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2005 11:53:50 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557CC19D4FE for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:53:49 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11327-13 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:53:47 +0800 (WST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9909618F609 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:53:47 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer? From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200511201932.25704.electronerd@electronerdia.net> References: <1132543117.3304.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200511201932.25704.electronerd@electronerdia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:53:46 +0800 Message-Id: <1132545226.20570.14.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jAL3vu4u023080 X-Archives-Salt: 46d55c1c-631d-4761-8b51-2ea2d29e76b4 X-Archives-Hash: b251e8fc28add9aab487d99bfdc34f28 Open the print dialog, tick the "Print to file" box and then print. A file save dialog pops up. It prints in ps format. OO has done it this way for years ... BillK On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 19:32 -0800, John Myers wrote: > On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, =E5=BC=B5=E9=9F=A1=E6=AD=A6 wrote: > > Hello. So far openoffice is the only application that I know that cou= ld > > not directly export PS format, or print to a 'generic PS printer'. I = am > > having a lot of troubles trying to generate PS file for my documents. > > Usually I have to go to a Windows computer and print to the 'Adobe PS > > Printer', and take the file back in a usb stick to my Linux computer. > > The usual gnome 'generic PS printer' simply does not exist as a print= er > > of choice in the print dialogue box. > > > > How do you guys manage to make PS files? >=20 > You could try exporting as a PDF, then running pdf2ps (from=20 > app-text/ghostscript) on it --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list