I am on Linux but haven’t needed to use office software in nearly 20 years, how do you access the pdf printer? Is that different from saving as a pdf through the menu?
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bufalo1973@piefed.social 19 hours agoLibreOffice has a native export to PDF. And, if you use (almost) any Linux, you have a PDF printer included.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You literally ‘print’ to pdf. Instead of a physical page appearing from the demon box, it will give you a prompt of where to ‘print’ your file. Windows has it too, though I always use the pdf export and not the print. But in a pinch it’s good.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
export is typically better as it preserve selectable text, if you print as pdf it will be as flat as a real paper
exu@feditown.com 19 hours ago
You hit print and select the PDF output. It probably works everywhere you can select a printer.
Windows also has that, but you have to navigate your way out of OneDrive folders.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The PDF printer would be accessed via the Print functionality. It’s a virtual device that renders output to a file instead of a physical printer.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 6 minutes ago
Even better, you can create a “Hybrid PDF” which embeds a second copy of the file in ODT format inside the PDF. This makes it re-editable.
Word supports ODT but it doesn’t support reading these ODT files embedded in PDFs though.