[TriLUG] OOo, PDF and Lulu

[Tim Jowers]

No need for .dork files!  Linux can do it all.

  Print to ps file and ps2pdf.  I've done it for several books and
released them through LuLu. Oo Writer is a very great tool for writing
books. I used 100% open source products to produce my Business Guide
to Free Information Technology in 2006. The one shortcoming I did find
in writer was in producing a website of your book. Of course that is a
special case. I wound up writing some Java code to take the one big
hue HTML file they kick out and turn it into a chapter by chapter
website. I think its something like:

ps2pdf14 -dSubsetFonts=false -dEmbedAllFonts=true DaPostScrip.ps DaRevToLuLu.pdf

BTW, one of the original - if not the original - uses of Unix was in publishing.

Rockon open source,
Tim


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kreamer <kevin at kreamer.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your best bet is to have OOo save as .doc format, and run that through
> Lulu's converter process. Afterwards you'll be able to download the
> resulting PDF, to make sure everything looks the way you like.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Kevin
>
> On Sunday, April 12, 2009, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Since I got good results last time I passed on a message from my author
>> friend, he asked me to try again.
>>
>>
>>
>> After a lot of discussion ( apparently ), he was told by Lulu that they
>> would accept a PDF file, rather than .odt or anything else that OOo
>> would produce.
>>
>>
>> However, he finds that the PDFs that he is producing are being rejected
>> because they don't have embedded fonts.  He has been trying all sorts of
>> parameters in OOo ( as far as he knows ) and still Lulu rejects the
>> file.
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions for making Lulu happy with his PDF file?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
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