Re: PDF (PS) support

On Sunday 16 October 2005 03:44 am, mikkel meinike wrote:
>
> Ciao abiword'es
>
> I have just compiled abiword 2.2.8 for my vectorlinux 4.0 system and I
> am very pleased with it but I found out one of the things that I was
> counting on as a feature is not available the export of PS
> (postscript) as it was in my earlier version. I looked up the abiword
> pages and found out that it should be supported in plug in. When I go
> to where this plug ins should be there are no plug ins only the source
> packages that I already have for linux. Is there any solution for my
> problem? What I need is to convert the abiword doc whit contains a
> page background (images) into PDF format.
> I don't care if I realy get the plug in or I get an other way to do
> this action, but abiword is a small linux I don't have gnome ore KDE
> installed.

Check the 'print' dialog. You should be able to 'print to file'
as postscript. PS is not exactly a document format, it's a
printer format, and debatable as that may be, that is *maybe* why
it's done that way. It wouldn't do any harm to put one more
menu item in the 'save' dialog though, would it? daveA

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Received on Sun Oct 16 17:46:21 2005