The author of this article give tips for users of OpenOffice on the Mac.
He really has good reason for using OpenOffice instead of Macintosh Office for Mac, saying:
My reason for looking into this was that I need to produce long technical documents as PDF files. It is important that these PDFs come with structured bookmarks that correspond to and are created from the heading structure in the original document (in my case MS Word).
After that he goes into a rant about how MSWord Mac and Adobe Acrobat can’t work together they way they do in Windows.
Then he says that by using the following he get great results:
* OpenOffice 1.1.x,
* Apple’s X11 server package
* a third-party macro called extendedPDF
* a custom hybrid Perl/AppleScript
* Adobe Acrobat Distiller (could also be replaced using GhostScript)
* EPS images in my document,
Read the full article with tips here: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/docs/openoffice-mac/
