[Malvern] PDF files.

[Guy Inchbald]

Hi Geoff,

Mostly I save out as .doc - nearly everybody can read this.

Libre Office is pretty good with .doc output. I haven't had any real
problems with it for many years now, though it occasionally messes with
bullet styles and such (but then, so does the current Microsoft Office).

Abiword's .doc compatibility used to be a bit wobbly, I don't know if
it's any better these days.

Having said that, I am surprised to hear that your M$ friends cannot
read your PDFs. Might this be because you are not embedding your (Linux)
fonts for them, or something like that? 
Or, if they can't read their own old PDFs from way back when, then maybe
they just need to get their own house in order.

--
Cheers,
Guy Inchbald


On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 19:24 +0100, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote:
> Most of the output of my current activities is either in .PS  or .PDF form.
> 
> My two word processors are Abiword and Libre Office Writer, neither of which can accept PDF.  Worse still,  most Micro$oft Window$ people are
> not able to open my .PDF files - they have a newer, version which is not backwards compatible.
> 
> My son David has a prog that will translate from .PDF to .DOC , 
> but it is of the commercial non-free variety.
> 
> What do you guys recommend ?
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
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