Create PDF With OpenOffice Writer

  11 Jun 2007 by Vyoma

Did you know that OpenOffice Writer had a feature to export to PDF?

It was about a week back, and I was searching for a solution to get a good PDF creator for my ebook, You Too Can Sketch. I could find a lot of PDF printers there, but they were not giving me the desired output quality. It was then, that I found the place where I composed the book, itself had a good quality PDF creator.

  1. Open the document you need to create a PDF out of, using OpenOffice Writer
  2. File -> Export As PDF…
  3. Browse to the folder you want the PDF to be created in, type in the name, and hit the Save button

And you are done.

11 Responses so far

  1. Shankar Ganesh June 11, 2007 6:14 am

    This is a really useful feature in OpenOffice. I use it sometimes.

  2. ReviewSaurus June 11, 2007 6:50 am

    Thanks a lot Vyoma for the tip :) Well, I’m not sure if some one noticed it or not, but this post has been written by Mahesh Bhat (A.K.A. Vyoma) of http://kalaalog.com

    @ Shankar : Indeed it is one of the good features of Open Office and this feature is missed badly in Microsoft Office.

  3. Vyoma June 11, 2007 1:28 pm

    You are welcome, Mayank.

    Shankar, at office I use (or am forced to use) Microsoft Office. At home, I enjoy using Open Office. I have not found anything in the common MS Office applications that I have not found in Open Office. Actually, there is more to Open Office.

  4. Shankar Ganesh June 11, 2007 1:34 pm

    Vyoma, I too love OO but something which I hate in it is that it loads too slow (or am I the only one thinking so?). Other than that, it’s good as an office suite.

  5. Vyoma June 11, 2007 1:50 pm

    Sankar, I am not sure about that. I never did a side by side benchmark on the same configuration. At office, it is a slower PC than at home. And I definitely do not want to buy Microsoft Office suite just for the sake of testing that. :P

  6. Shankar Ganesh June 11, 2007 1:51 pm

    :D

  7. Vyoma June 11, 2007 1:54 pm

    Ok, here is an update. I found this article at SlashDot that confirms that OO is slower.

    http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/24/0058209

    Check out the discussions.

  8. Shankar Ganesh June 11, 2007 1:57 pm

    As the comments in the article say, the Java Runtime is to blame. This pretty much sums up to its slow response to user actions.

  9. Vyoma June 11, 2007 2:00 pm

    Yes indeed. And the question is, if you would want to bear with that, or pay up for the Office suite, and also have all your documents locked down in proprietary format.

  10. Shankar Ganesh June 11, 2007 2:01 pm

    Anyways, my vote is still for OpenOffice :)

  11. Vyoma June 11, 2007 2:04 pm

    :) Yes, so is mine. I prefer not to spend on an Office suite, and keep paying it every time there is an upgrade.

    Might as well spend that money on buying music and feeding those artists whose works we enjoy. :P

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