[Discussion] More Open Office Woes

[jim.scott at scottelectronic.com]

** Reply to note from "Jeffrey Race" <jrace at attglobal.net> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:04:06 -0400 
 
Hi all, 
 
A little clarification:  I create a text file, I can export it as a PDF, and I can print to a PostScript printer, but when   
I choose to print to a file... 
 
It asks for the file name and allows me to select a directory.  All appears normal.  It even acts like it is writing it.   
 
However, as I stated in the first post, NO FILE by that name, NOR by any part of that name can be found anywhere on any   
drive on the computer.   
 
I use a command prompt window as I have for years to find files when lost.  Something like:   
DIR X:\PARTIAL_FILE_NAME*.* /S/P or  
DIR \*.PS /s/p   
 
In short, it claims it did, but it apparently didn't, unless... 
 
Could it be that there is a file written, and maybe even placed in some default directory, but the name I specify, is not   
used? 
 
BTW:  I often use the print to disk feature in other programs so that files can be placed on a server and printed by   
dragging and dropping onto the PostScript printer object.  This is the first time I have tried this in Open Office.  I   
have used Corel for graphics, and Borlands Sprint, a DOS based WP.  Now that I am trying to convert files over so we can   
standardize to Open Office and I have run into this issue.  I have not emailed the file to a Windoze XP machine and tried   
the Open Office there to do the print to disk.  If it works there, I would think the issue is with OO for os/2. 
 
Regards, 
 
Jim Scott 
 
 
 
>    
> It should have asked you for a file name and a place to put it. If it did, that's where it is. If it didn't, that's 
> where to start the trouble-shooting process Jeffrey Race 
>    
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:54:32 -0700, Bill Nicholls wrote: 
> >If I recall properly, Postscript is for printing. By itself, it doesn't 
> >turn into PDF. 
> > 
> >Postscript has to be intercepted and converted to generate a PDF, and 
> >maybe that isn't setup when you Print Postscript, as opposed to an 
> >export of a PDF. 
> > 
> >BillN 
> > 
> >> Message: 1 
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:48:29 CST 
> >> From: jim.scott at scottelectronic.com 
> >> Subject: [Discussion] More Open Office woes 
> >> To: discussion at possi.org 
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> >> 	<200808121448.m7CEmXba021088 at omr14.networksolutionsemail.com> 
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> >>   
> >> This is a first.  
> >>   
> >> I tried to print Open Office to disk a PostScript file.  All appearances is that it worked, but there is not a file    
> >> anywhere.  I used a command line DIR search across all subdirs and drives, with wildcards, still nothing.  
> >>   
> >> It exports a PDF just fine.  
> >>   
> >> Any ideas?  
> >>   
> > 
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