On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 08:53 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 8/24/07, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:
> > Ok, here's a challenge.  I've got an OpenOffice form that I use for
> > maintenance requests for my townhouse.  I fill in the form fields and
> > save the document in OpenOffice format and when I open it everything is
> > ok.  Now I want to save it as a PDF so that people without OpenOffice
> > can open it (ie. the management company).  Whenever I do export to PDF I
> > get the blank form, rather than the filled in form.  Does anyone know
> > how to do this?
> 
> I don't really have an answer for you, but have you tried to open it
> in multiple pdf viewers?  Maybe its just a viewer bug that's causing
> it to appear blank?
I've been using evince, I'll try another one.

> Alternately if OOo has a 'print to file' option that generates a
> postscript file, perhaps you could try that and then convert the
> resulting postscript file to pdf?
That's what I did for now.


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