[Tfug] OpenOffice file exports to PDF

[Rich]

Charles, you missed one very important piece of information:

How are you viewing the PDFs?

Rich.


On Sep 20, 2009, at 8:12 am, Charles R. Kiss wrote:

> 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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