From: james_b <james_b@...>
Date: 2003-07-08T11:43:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com

Jim Freeze wrote:
> On Saturday,  5 July 2003 at 15:50:02 +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 
>>----- Original Message -----
>>
>>Powerpoint can't export as .ps or .pdf -- it can
>>do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
>>formats.
>>
> 
> 
> If you print to file to a printer that is a postscript
> printer, you end up with a postscript file that has
> a .prn suffix. (It doesn't matter if you have the printer
> or not when you print to file.)
> 
> I generated postscript files from my .ppt lectures
> and then converted them to pdf with ps2pdf.
> 
> Makes for very nice output.
> 

The latest (more or less) beta of OpenOffice for Windows will export to 
PDF.  Does a good job with Word files; might work (haven't tried) with 
Powerpoint stuff.


James