Re: 3VDQ : I want a .abw file *and* a .pdf file

Bear Tooth wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
>> You should be able to print to a .PS file then run ps2pdf if you want
>> to do it entirely through the shell. Otherwise, just print to a PDF
>> document from within AbiWord. Piece of cake. (On windows, install
>> PDFCreator from sf.net/projects/pdfcreator first)
>
>
> Well, I may print it once or twice; but I was mainly concerned
> with people I email it to.

That's fine - the PDF export is simply located under the Print command,
unless you install the PDF output plugin, which just makes a menu item
for it. PDF is a good "finish format" for sending, if the recipient
doesn't want to install AbiWord.

>
>> AbiWord can open text files just fine, note that sometimes if lines
>> are manually broken by your mailer at a certain column, extra
>> paragraph endings (carriage returns) might be at the end of the
>> lines, keeping AbiWord from handling word wrap. This is easy to fix,
>> just turn on Show Formatting Marks and delete all extraneous line
>> endings.
>
>
> Oh good; and I'm glad to know the trick. Many thanks!
>
>> Hope this helps!
>
>
> Yes, much; thanks again!
>

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
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