Issue 1799

Summary:	Integrate PDF as a document format or printing option
Product:	ui	Reporter:	mikemaccana <mikem>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	philipp.lohmann
Status:	CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE	QA Contact:	issues@ui <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description mikemaccana 2001-10-06 00:13:52 UTC

Many users use PDF as part of their workflow. This has long been available in 
Star/OpenOffice, but only to users who were aware of the various steps needed 
to create PDF output. 

I.e., to generate PDF currently, users must know that: 
* `Print to File' generates PostScript
* Postscript can be turned into pdf with the ps2pdf command (and the syntax 
and command line knowledge involved)
* ps2pdf as shipped on most Unix platforms is buggy and won't handle certain 
filenames. 

This levels of knowledge makes it quite difficult for new users o generate PDF 
files. 

PDF should be avaliable as a special `export' document format or via the 
printing dialog.

Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-10-08 15:10:19 UTC

Reassigned to Hasan.

Comment 2 h.ilter 2001-10-09 12:02:39 UTC

Linx, please have a look for this.

Comment 3 philipp.lohmann 2001-10-09 14:59:07 UTC

This is what the option to create a PDF printer in spadmin is for. 
Please start spadmin and create a PDF printer (you should either 
have ghostscript or acrobat distiller in your path) and simply print 
to that printer to create a PDF.

Comment 4 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:51:52 UTC

As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.

Comment 5 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:52:42 UTC

As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.

Comment 6 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:27:53 UTC

As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.

Comment 7 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:28:15 UTC

As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.