Re: PDF

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 12:46:41 EDT

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    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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