
PDF/A-1: PDF/A is an ISO standard established in 2005 for long-term preservation of documents, by embedding all the pieces necessary for faithful reproduction (such as fonts) while forbidding other elements (including forms, security, encryption, and tagged PDF). EPS images without embedded previews are exported as empty placeholders. On the General page, you can choose which pages to include in the PDF, the type of compression to use for images (which affects the quality of images in the PDF), and other options.ĮPS images with embedded previews are exported only as previews. Then you are asked to enter the location and file name of the PDF to be created, and click Save to export the file. Make your selections, and then click Export. This dialog has five pages (General, Initial View, User Interface, Links, and Security). You are asked to enter the file name and location for the PDF file, but you do not get a chance to choose a page range, the image compression, or other options.įor more control over the content and quality of the resulting PDF, use File > Export as PDF. The process and dialogs are the same for Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw, with a few minor differences mentioned in this section.Ĭlick the Export Directly as PDF icon to export the entire document using your default PDF settings. This industry-standard file format is ideal for sending the file to someone else to view using Adobe Reader or other PDF viewers. This is useful for third-party applications that use functionality provided by can export documents to PDF (Portable Document Format). No startup screen, no default document and no UI. Suppress restart/restore after fatal errors.
Open documents in viewer (read-only) mode. To see a list of options you can use when starting Writer at the command line, type:īelow is a list of some of the more popular options. Likewise, you can start other Apache OpenOffice components from the command line: Writer will start and create a new document. If you installed using the download on the Apache OpenOffice website, you can start Writer by typing at the command line: There is more than one way to start Apache OpenOffice from the command line, depending on whether a customized version or the standard download from the Apache OpenOffice website has been installed.