[Tfug] OpenOffice file exports to PDF

[Nathan England]

Charles R. Kiss wrote:
> I set up a directory http://charles.kissbrothers.com/files containing 
> four files: 1) the original .odt, 2) the .export.pdf 3) the 
> printtofile.ps and 4) the ps2pdf.pdf.
>
> You can see the errors only [checked and rechecked] in the .export.pdf 
> file.  They are amusing.  For example, the third line of page one 
> contains a 'twig' shaped font instead of a '1' at a subscript. Second 
> line, page two, has a 'gamma' looking thing instead of a '2', more 
> errors: there's a 'box' instead of a 'zero' at the middle of the page.
>
> I certainly am interested to find out if it is a corrupt .odt file or 
> a corrupt export process. Let me know (if you have the time). I have 
> to say, that nothing else on my linux install, including audio, video, 
> games, the virtualbox windows partitions and all it's software, shared 
> folders, games, etc. (Thanks John!) work as perfectly as I can tell.
>
> Thanks again,
> Charles
>
>
I opened your .odt file and saved it as a .pdf and it looks just fine. 
So that leaves me believing your fonts are not setup correctly. Next 
step is reinstall your fonts and try again. I forget if you mentioned 
now, is this Gnome or KDE? I don't know about Gnome, but KDE has a 
graphical installer for handling system fonts and/or personal fonts. In 
the past I had similar problems where I had a font installed personally 
and OOo would not embed it, but once I installed the font globally it 
worked just fine...

nathan