Re: [libreoffice-users] Exporting Text File to PDF (One Page At A time)

Hi :)  
Perhaps "Print to file" and choose Pdf instead of Ps as the file-type and restrict to just 
"Selected pages".  

However OpenSource is set-up to have specialist programs that can work together to produce output 
for a wide range of different requirements.  

If you were planting flowers would you use a butter knife to dig the holes?  Would you use a trowel 
to cut your hedges?  Would you use a hedge strimmer to spread butter on a slice of bread?  

Typically the proprietary route is to make 1 program that does everything.  It is not a specialist 
in those extra rarely used things so does a fairly lousy job.  Also when i want a midnight snack i 
have to get my boots on and the trowel and the hedge strimmer and a ton of other things i wont need 
when all i wanted was a little slice of toast with a bit of jam. The OpenSource route is to put 
only the right tool in my hand (well, a choice of right tools).  The OpenSource is not a "can't do" 
attitude.  It's a "use the right tool for the job" approach.  

Regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com>
> To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Saturday, 23 February 2013, 8:16
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Exporting Text File to PDF (One Page At A time)
>
>
> On Dec 28, 2012, at 5:01 AM, lordmax tdf <lordmax-tdf@email.it> wrote:
>
> > Hi to all
> >
> > Il 28/12/2012 02:02, Girvin R. Herr ha scritto:
> > > Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > > I'm exporting ODT files to PDF, but I want to export only 1 page at a
> > > > time, so I'm using a BASIC macro to handle this.
> > > >
> > > > I've been searching, but since somewhere around 3-4am EST, I have not
> > > > been able to access oooforum.org and most links lead to there.
> > > >
> > > > I can't find examples elsewhere that show me how to export a PDF file
> > > > from in BASIC or how to specify, again, from BASIC, what pages to export.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone give me links for examples that are not on oooforum.org?
> > > > Or tell me what classes I would be using for this so I can look them
> > > > up in the IDL to find out how to specify the page (or pages) to export
> > > > and how to use the PDF exporter?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hal
> >
> > If you need a single pdf for every page of your document it's better to create a single pdf and 
> > then separate every page with an external program specialized in this.
>
> I haven't been able to get back to this for a while.
>
> So I have to ask why one would say this?  In many cases the purpose of doing something from a 
> macro inside LibreOffice is to have an integrated solution so one doesn't depend on having to run 
> external programs.
>
> I've been looking into this and this is quite possible - granted, it took me about 6-8 hours to 
> find all the details, but it's possible.  I'll be posting a sample within the next few days.
>
> It just seems to me saying it's better to do something else is a "can't do" attitude that defeats 
> much of what one would want to do with macros.
>
>
>
> Hal
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