From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 12:46:41 EDT
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:20:07 +0200
> From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> To: Marshall Lake <mlake@melake.erols.com>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: PDF
>
> According to Marshall Lake <mlake@melake.erols.com>:
> >
> > > There is an outstanding bug requesting PDF support, it is one of the top
> > > voted requests for enhancements.
> >
> > Great. Hopefully it will be incorporated soon.
>
> Who you told that ?
>
> It is not because it is a top request that we'll do it soon.
>
i replied offlist
i guess i should have replied to him onlist, see my reply below.
on reflection i think i was being a bit too optomistic.
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Marshall Lake wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:17:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Marshall Lake <mlake@melake.erols.com>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: PDF
>
>
> > There is an outstanding bug requesting PDF support, it is one of the
top
> > voted requests for enhancements.
>
> Great. Hopefully it will be incorporated soon.
Not likely.
The most i expect is a clean inteface/plugin to an outside program.
> > i have not tried it yet but using pdflatex in combination with Abiword
> > LaTeX export should produce good results.
>
> I just tried this and unfortunately some of the formatting gets lost
> during the conversion process somewhere along the line.
It could be a problem with the LaTeX exporter.
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