Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

On 10/15/2012 07:48 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> > > that's the way it is and that's why currently I don't use LO Writer
> > > for anything else than for converting .doc files to .pdf
> > I might just be something a little bit above a IT moron but using LO
> > Writer to convert doc into pdf appears to me like using a tractor to
> > participate in a F1 race or using an F1 race car to plough a field.
> > Why not installing a pdf-writer SW, there are even free-of-charge
> > versions available.
> The point is that you do not only need a printer driver to generate the
> PDF, but also an application that can open those .doc, .ppt etc. files.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang
Wolfgang . . .

I use Writer's "Export to PDF" and CUPS-PDF [Ubuntu 12.04] both, to 
create PDF "prints" of my document. CUPS-PDF will "print" PDFs for any 
package that can print to a physical printer.  I use doPDF for Windows 
systems.

"Export to PDF" doesgreat, except for some of the real decortive fonts I 
may use.  Then I need to use CUPS-PDF.  The drawback with "CUPS-PDF is 
the document is always viewed in portrait mode even if the text is 
aligned in a landscape mode.

To be honest, I even use Writer to create eBooks for my tablet.  For 
some reason, I cannot get my tablet to read my ebooks on the installed 
microSD card.  Kindle for Android does not want to do it. So, after all 
my "testing" I figured it would be easier to create PDFs that was in the 
"print size" of a paperback, or at least my 7 inch tablet's screen. 
Right now, I open the .mobi files,or .epub files, and export them to a 
plain text file.  Then I open them in Writer and use the A6 page size 
[4.13 by 5.83 inches] and reduce the margins down to .15 inches.  Then I 
export them to a PDF file.  That process works well.  Actually the only 
way I can get the Kindle reader to read a file on the added microSD card 
is to open a PDF file using the file manager.  This way will not work 
with any other file type forKindle, but it does workwith PDF.  I do not 
have a Kindle tablet, but a $100 Trio Stealth Pro, since that was all I 
could afford at the time.

SO, Writer does a lot of things that a "reader/converter" app cannot do. 
I cancreate PDF eBooks from free plain text files, or even other file 
formats with a little help.

I now have 3 six-foot high bookshelf units staked 2 and 3 deep with 
paperback books.  I am currently working on getting as many of those 
books in both audio and eBook formats.  Then, if I ever have to reduce 
the number of books, or make room for newones, I will have them still in 
eBook, and maybe audio book, format. Writer helps me take the .epub and 
.mobi books and convert them into something I can use on my tablet.  Of 
course, I could move/copy them over to the internal 4 GB card, but I 
would rather leave them on the removable 32 GB microSD card.


Last year, I would not have imagined that I would use Writer, and some 
helper-apps to make usable eBooks for a tablet.  Last year I did not 
think I would ever buy a table either.

Actually I use Writer for "quick" posters for people.  If itis a complex 
poster, I use Inkscape, but slowly learning what Draw can do. Actually I 
create anew/revised logo for a non-profit organization that I created 
the original logo for.  I used Draw this time, just to practicewith it.




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