[Tfug] OpenOffice file exports to PDF

[Charles R. Kiss]

Thanks Nathan for your advice. I've spent approximately four to six hours on this problem.

I searched both *pdf* and *alias* and found many programs (and pdf files :)). I didn't think it was an alias problem because the behavior of misreplacing fonts was so random- well, I suppose it still can be an alias problem.  Anyway, I decided to concentrate on the many pdf packages and experimented with the livetex packages thinking it might be a latex thing, since there were some latex-OOo bugs in the past (proabably still are), and I understand it is very complex, fundamental to rendering text:  so I reinstalled most of them; I switched from poppler-utils to xpdf-utils packages and added, installed, a couple "extras," texlive-extra-utils and texlive-latex-extra.

The behavior is now that the export process works only with the "tagged" PDF option. Options PDF/A-1 (whatever that is) checked, or all options unchecked, generate the same erroneous results: -which is still: after moving the ttf-dejaVu directory from .../fonts/truetype- randomly replacing fonts in formulas with a 'box' (probably the null default); but at least not funky 'twigs' and 'gammas' and 'boxes'. Errors are now easier to spot.  FOOTNOTE: I did notice, however, that a new character has since shown up, the 'psi' character in place of the '3'.

So, there has been some valuable improvement, I can easily export as long as the "tagged" option is checked; but I lost a little confidence in the export process, which I imagine is a good thing, forcing a lot of careful rereads. The broken exports probably create less typos and brainfarts than I do!

Also, since moving the ttf-dejavu directory, many system fonts have changed (Konqueror, Iceweasel, etc), so this is another clue I imagine.

Thanks again!

Charles



On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:00:03 -0400, <tfug-request at tfug.org> wrote:



> Sounds to me like your alias package is corrupt. Not sure what it wouldbe called. Mine is called xorg-fonts-alias


> Maybe its not broken the PDF
> exporter just can create that font so it replaces it. But I'm sure if
> you keep trying to fix it it will be broken. How much have you spent
> "fixing it" vs. just using the workaround?


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