[LMB] OT: AKICOL PDF transformerbot
Michael Bauminger
lmblist at mikebomb.com
Tue May 20 21:07:14 BST 2008
On Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:02 AM, B. Ross Ashley
<redlion at sff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 03:10:01 GMT, "Kirsten Edwards"
> <carbonelle at juno.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Michael B. <snip> points me to <snip>
> >
> > http://www.primopdf.com/
>
> Kirsten, I'm an OpenOffice.org partisan; among its
> virtues is the "export to PDF" button. Any time I want to
> make one, that's what I use. Compose the document in OO,
> including any pictures, and export to PDF. I've no idea
> whether or not Microsoft Office or WordPervect will do as
> much, I've never used them.
Lois has a quote for this suggestion: "Just like swatting
flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it
sure takes care of the flies."
Suggesting that Kirsten download Open Office just to print
to PDF is very much like swatting flies with a laser cannon.
-- Michael
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