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pdf and flash export
pdf and flash export
Posted Mar 9, 2006 14:56 UTC (Thu) by kh (subscriber, #19413)Parent article: The next generation office suite
I think the pdf and the Impress to flash export are fairly innovative, although pdf export is becoming fairly common and the flash export is so limited (e.g. no animations) as to be disappointing, but I am hopeful for this area in the future. (I have not yet looked at the newest release 2.02? - so no idea on any potential changes.) I am thankful for the Free software alternatives such as Abiword.
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PDF export is old
Posted Mar 9, 2006 15:46 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
What? PDF export is anything but innovative -- Mac OS X has had the ability to print to PDF from every single program that supports printing since the first release in 2000. Of course the graphics engine uses PDF, but anyway. And Adobe has had similar products (Distiller) for even longer.
PDF export is old
Posted Mar 10, 2006 0:20 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]
And latex has been doing pdf since before the begining of time. Indeed unix software in general prints to ps, and pdf is automatically an option with things like ps2pdf. MacOSX is a relatively late comer to this party.
PDF export is old
Posted Mar 10, 2006 7:14 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
In fact, Mac OS X is a newcomer to all parties; its antecessor NeXT had Display Postscript at its graphics core, so I guess exporting to PDF must have been easy (I haven't used it myself though).