extendedPDF: Professional PDF controls for OpenOffice.org
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In early versions of OpenOffice.org, exporting to PDF required setting up a printer driver and offered few options. PDF export is vastly improved since version 2.0, since it is built-in and offers some control over the degree of image compression, the initial view, and user interface. However, even these controls are basic. They are certainly far behind the desktop tools available for Adobe Acrobat in Windows and OS X. For this reason, extendedPDF is an essential tool for those who need fine-control over their PDF output from OpenOffice.org in GNU/Linux.
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The OpenOffice.org project has turned four years old, celebrating its birthday on the anniversary of Sun's donation of StarOffice to the open source community. With 31 million downloads and counting, the free office suite has helped push for mainstream acceptance of open source software by offering an alternative to Microsoft's pricey Office System. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is set for release next spring, complete with an open equivalent to Microsoft Access.
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eBook Tools is a collection of tools to assist with creating and modifying ebook OPF files and ebook content files.   Welcome to eBook Tools ----------------------  eBook Tools is a collection of tools I have written to assist with creating and modifying ebook OPF files and ebook content files.  There is currently no Icon or Helpfile for this project, if you would like to donate either please see the About dialog in the program for contact details.  This program utilises MS-Word very heavily to perform most of the tasks available.  So if you do not have MS-Word installd do not install the application as it will not work. It has been tested with Winjdows XP (SP2) and MS-Word 2000 and also with MS-Word 2002 and was found to work ok. I have not tested it with Vista. So reports on how it does will be much appreciated.  The features available in the current version are as follows ------------------------------------------------------------  Open, modify and save OPF files eBook meatadata, x-metadata and guide items. Supports Metadata lookup from the internet  Create new OPF files Drag and drop file ordering for ebook spine, exclude items from ebook spine   The Tools available are as follows ----------------------------------  Convert docs to HTML - batch convert all documents (MS-word docs) in the file list to HTML documents.  Split Document - use on either Word documents or HTML documents,  helps split a large file into seperate chapter files. Note:  whens using the document splitter the main windows is hidden and the splitter is controlled from an icon is the system try.  Format documents - removes forced CR's and changes the font and size of all documents in the file list to a pre-selected format.  Create Toc file - helps create a TOC file to all the files in the filelist,  has several options for the naming of the hyperlinks in the resulting Toc file  Change Dialect - Changes the dialect of all files in the filelist - eg, American to English spelling, or vice-versa.   Dictionary file ---------------  The dialect change tool uses an MS-Access database file containing a list of words and their english spelled couterpart. The copy of the DB file that comes with the initial install contains only a few words. I plan to post updated database files as the list grows longer. If you would like to contribute to the word list database please see the 'About' dialog on the application for contact details.   Licence -------  Free for everyone for personal use, for business use please contact me.  Disclaimer ----------  Whatever happens to your computer or data, it's not my fault and I will not be held liable or responsible in any way. Use at your own risk, if you don't read this and use anyway, it is still not my fault (ignorance cannot be used as a defence).  Suggestions/bugs ----------------  If you have any please see the 'About' dialog in the application for contact details.     Ian.            Presented By     Intermarkets Donates to Needy Families to Spread Hope      Intermarkets, Inc. participates in sponsorships of local families in need during the holiday season through The Salvation Army, and the U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots and "Adopt-A-Family" programs. (PRWeb Dec 19, 2007)                          Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/TWFnbi1aZXRhLVN1bW0tQ3Jhcy1UaGlyLVplcm8= &nbsp;    Ads by Pheedo
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Photo organizing, editing tool emerges from beta test.
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New PostScript RIP gives designers more options in output formats.
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Thanks to some new developments in document standards, Office 2007 users will be able to share files with open-source office apps and online productivity suites from the likes of Zoho and Google. In Monkey Bites.
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OpenSong is a free software application for managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship leaders and musicians! This next release contains quite a few bug fixes, set list printing, proxy support, module loading, a new background image chooser, backgrounds folders, songs folders, multiple themes per song, key field, aka field, key line field, ccli import now imports the new song fields, configurable alert font, live scripture browsing during presentations, HTML song export, and more! Everything has been moved around and optimized. Now with multiple language support. This is a great update to 0.9.8.   You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108754&package_id=117409
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(InfoWorld) - Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications file formats. The Open XML Translator is now available for download in version 1.0 from SourceForge.net, a site that acts as an online repository for open-source projects. The software also can be found on Microsoft's Web site here and here. Microsoft funded the work on the translator, but did not contribute any code to the project, said Jason Matusow, senior director of intellectual property and interoperability at Microsoft. The company provided architectural guidance and management to the project, he said. A French company called CleverAge contributed the code and built most of the Open XML Translator, while Aztecsoft in India and Dialogika in Germany did the quality assurance and testing. The Open XML Translator allows Microsoft Word documents based on Open XML to be translated into ODF and vice versa, Matusow said. Once downloaded, it can be used as a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2007, the documents of which are based on Open XML. Developers also can build it into software they are developing. The Open XML Translator for Word documents is the first phase of the project. The team is currently working on translation between ODF and Open XML for spreadsheets written in Microsoft Excel 2007 and presentations developed in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, Matusow said. Much has been made of the fact that MicrosoftÂ did not provide native supportÂ in Microsoft Office 2007 for ODF, though it provides support for 30 other file formats and uses Open XML as the default document file format. Matusow defends that decision by saying Microsoft tries to meet its customers' wishes, and there was no customer demand for ODF -- largely supported by rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems -- when development on Office 2007 began. IBM and Sun both use ODF as the default file format in their own rivals to the Microsoft Office suite. "A standard is about a stack of paper -- market adoption is the ultimate driver of activity," Matusow said. "What gets built and used is the defining element. That's why we look at the customer discussion as being so important." However, government customers that may be required to use only industry-standard technologies in their IT infrastructure requested that Microsoft provide a way to translate between Open XML and ODF.Â ODF recently was approvedÂ by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as a global standard, while Open XML is awaiting approval. Matusow said the reason Microsoft let third parties be the primary creators and caretakers of the Open XML Translator is because of the input of government customers who wanted Microsoft to provide a free, open way to translate between ODF and Open XML -- one that was not strictly overseen by Microsoft but was more of a community effort. To its credit, Microsoft did try to include native support for another company's document format -- a standard implementation of Adobe Systems Inc.'s PDF -- in Office 2007, but Adobe balked at the idea and asked Microsoft to pull that support, which it did. Adobe recently submitted PDF to the ISO for global standardization, and Matusow said Microsoft would again be "open to conversation" with Adobe about including PDF as a native file format in a future version of Office.
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Investintech&#39;s Able2Extract sofware lets users view and convert PDF data into formatted Excel spreadsheets.  Great for data and trend analysis - a real time saver! Try it free.
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Adobe Reader simply allowed viewing capabilities in past versions. But the upcoming release lets users make comments or editing changes.
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Adobe Systems Inc. released a new version this week of the popular Acrobat desktop publishing system, with features for both authors and recipients of electronic documents.
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On the RegDeveloper website, there's a new tutorial posted that covers the creation of both PDF files and Excel reports from inside of PHP (with the help of the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer PEAR component and the ClibPDF PHP Library (bundled with PHP 5.3).   Given the prevelance of PHP, Excel and PDF it's fortunate there exists class libraries for the generation of PDF documents and Excel spreadsheets using PHP.   They start with the PDF generation and show the installation process for ClibPDF and an example of creating a document on the fly. Their example sets up a title, some content text and a table of information. Creating the Excel spreadsheet is even simpler with the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer - installation via a PEAR channel and defining the worksheet, fonts and content are quick and easy function calls.
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How often have you thrown up your hands in disgust at the poor quality of documentation for an open source project?  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if someone put together a documentation coverage tool that worked like test coverage too ls?  Well, you&#8217;re in luck&#8212;dcov is here (at least for Ruby code).read more
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New service lets Adobe customers transmit documents for commercial production.
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JabRef is a graphical application for managing bibliographical databases. The main focus is on BibTeX databases, but other database formats will be supported as well. JabRef runs on all platforms and requires java 1.4. The new JabRef version is finally out. Highlights include (configurable) preview with and without abstract, remote Medline search, CiteSeer support, a new dialog for easily creating entries from plain text, a new panel for the Abstract in the entry editor, and numerous usability improvements. And, as usual, many bug fixes.   You can find the latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=92314&package_id=97632
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Adobe on Monday introduced version 8 of its ubiquitous Acrobat PDF software as part of a minor update to its Creative Suite. The new release brings with it Web conferencing functionality incorporated from Macromedia Breeze.
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A discussion of how to use frame styles in OOo Writer.