Re: square bullets

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:04:21 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:11:21 GMT, Ted Edwards
<Ted_Espamless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
I guess I could learn Pagemaker. Even Open Office is still the Word
paradigm, which is crap. I mean, if I want to move text, why can't I
just draw a box around and drag it, like 99% of the programs in the
world allow?

Something I've found handy: I have set up a second "printer". It's a
top-of-the-line PostScript printer that I don't have but I've set it up
to print to file. I can print from pretty much anywhere to this printer
then convert to .PDF with Ghost Script.

Ted


I have Acrobat, which pops up in the "printers" list, so I can print
directly to a PDF. It works fine, and the pdf's are usually smaller
than the .doc files, and the bullets don't change shape.

John

But the document reformats when you change the printer from a real
printer to Distiller.. IME (based on older versions) Word is more
attuned to an HTML kind of thinking rather than precise page layout.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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