Han Wen Kam: My openSUSE 12 Journal - 7: Printing to PDF

One more thing... that I forgot to mention in my previous entry is the topic of printing to PDF.

I'm quite surprised this capability is not included in the base openSUSE 12.2 install since we have OSS version of the Adobe PDF reader (Okular).

Scenario/Use Case:
You need to print out a document directly into a PDF format file, instead of killing trees.  Some examples are:

• Printing online receipts directly into a PDF for your electronic filing
• Converting some page or document into PDF format using the Print function

Do note that if your document can be opened and edited in LibreOffice (comes with 12.2), and you want to convert that document into a PDF, you can do that by clicking the PDF button within LibreOffice.

Solution:

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