From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-07-06T06:09:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com

In article <183e01c342c6$ed52f2e0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>,
Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU>
>To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
>Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:57 AM
>Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com
>
>
>> Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>> ...
>> > Powerpoint can't export as .ps or .pdf -- it can
>> > do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
>> > formats.
>> 
>> There's openoffice, which runs on windows (as well as linux) and can 
>> read PPT quite well and export to PDF. Actually, I've only tried on 
>> linux, but it does a nice job.
>
>Hmm, I have OpenOffice 1.0.1 on Red Hat. I can
>certainly open the .ppt, but I can't see a way
>to save as a .pdf -- for some reason, Export 
>has more options than Save As (counterintuitive
>to me), but the nearest thing is .eps I think.
>
>Hal
>

I think pdf export is a 1.1Beta feature.

Phil