[TriLUG] linux apps on desktop that support *.mdb, *.vsd, *.dwg and *.mpp

[Lee Fickenscher]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:28:40PM -0400, Maria Winslow wrote:
> StarOffice writes PDFs, and OpenOffice will write them to a file with mild 
> effort. Anytime the organization needs to pass along a document that is not 
> intended to be altered, a PDF is preferable. I doubt sales and marketing 
> people really want to send a document to prospects that a) can be 
> manipulated, b) they can't control the exact look of, and c) may have red 
> underlined "misspellings" that are a result of the product name not being in 
> the prospect's Word dictionary.

OpenOffice 1.1 beta writes PDFs with absolutely no effort. Just press a
button :-)

-Lee