[Tfug] OpenOffice file exports to PDF

[Nathan England]

Charles R. Kiss wrote:
> Thanks Jim,
>
> Okay, I just ran three additional tests using thee different .odt 
> files created over the last few months by different versions of 
> OpenOffice and all three had similar errors, as I described: limited 
> only to Insert>Object>Formula: numerals sporadically replaced with 
> incorrect fonts, sometimes a 'zero' is replaced with a dot (not a 
> period) or a box, other fonts are the funky gamma, or the twig...  but 
> when using the "print to file" option in OpenOffice writer (I did so 
> with one of the three files), the .ps file had no found font errors 
> -as I did a very thorough job looking; I followed that with a ps2pdf, 
> and again, no found errors.
>
> So, to answer your question, yes with 99.9% certainty.
>
> And I'm willing to run more tests.
>
> Charles
>
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:00:07 -0400, <tfug-request at tfug.org> wrote:
>
>> Bizarre.  Yet it works generating PDF files via a print driver?
>
>

Assuming these are not personal documents, would you be willing to post 
one or two that we could try them on our systems? Maybe edit a couple so 
personal info is gone, but it is still making the errors on your end and 
let us see what happens on our OOo installations...

nathan