Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : more
141229 Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. I've investigated further the problem remains. It occurred to me that it was perhaps being caused by importing a text file /or that the original import PDF had been done by OpenOffice 3 ya . However, apostrophes extended dashes are mangled as shown above even when I enter a completely new .odt file. I've tried changing the font using the PDF dialog under 'File', but the bad effect still happens. This has to be a bug in LO : whatever the characters in the .odt , LO sb able to reproduce them correctly in the exported PDF . It appears that I don't have a bug account with LO, so I've applied for one after checking whether anyone else has run into it, will report it. Any further suggestions by Gentoo users are very welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : more
Philip Webb wrote: 141229 Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. I've investigated further the problem remains. It occurred to me that it was perhaps being caused by importing a text file /or that the original import PDF had been done by OpenOffice 3 ya . However, apostrophes extended dashes are mangled as shown above even when I enter a completely new .odt file. I've tried changing the font using the PDF dialog under 'File', but the bad effect still happens. This has to be a bug in LO : whatever the characters in the .odt , LO sb able to reproduce them correctly in the exported PDF . It appears that I don't have a bug account with LO, so I've applied for one after checking whether anyone else has run into it, will report it. Any further suggestions by Gentoo users are very welcome. I'm clueless but could it be a missing font issue?? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : bug report
141231 Philip Webb wrote: 141229 Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : I've investigated further the problem remains. It occurred to me that it was perhaps being caused by importing a text file /or that the original import PDF had been done by OpenOffice 3 ya . However, apostrophes extended dashes are mangled as shown above even when I enter a completely new .odt file. I've tried changing the font using the PDF dialog under 'File', but the bad effect still happens. This has to be a bug in LO : whatever the characters in the .odt , LO sb able to reproduce them correctly in the exported PDF . It appears that I don't have a bug account with LO, so I've applied for one after checking whether anyone else has run into it, will report it. I've submitted LibreOffice Bug 87903 . Can anyone else reproduce this ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem
I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : http://www.chass.utoronto/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. Can anyone offer an explanation or some way to fix the problem ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem
On 29/12/2014 11:03, Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : http://www.chass.utoronto/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. Can anyone offer an explanation or some way to fix the problem ? Those links do not work -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem
141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/12/2014 11:03, Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. Can anyone offer an explanation or some way to fix the problem ? Those links do not work. Thanks : corrected above (red face). Also Libreoffice 4.3.4.1 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem
On 29/12/2014 14:16, Philip Webb wrote: 141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/12/2014 11:03, Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. Can anyone offer an explanation or some way to fix the problem ? Those links do not work. Thanks : corrected above (red face). Also Libreoffice 4.3.4.1 . At first glance I'd say you enabled Smart quotes in libreoffice sometime in the last 3 years, and it's now mangling apostrophes and dashes into something clever. Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Options -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem
141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/12/2014 14:16, Philip Webb wrote: I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. I'd say you enabled Smart quotes in Libreoffice sometime since 2011 and it's now mangling apostrophes and dashes into something clever : try Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Options . Thanks for the pointer. Wasn't it still Open Office back then ? Perhaps when it changed to LibreOffice, default settings were altered. There were basically 3 problems : (1) the elided dash was mangled, so I told it not to elide replaced all instances with '--' ; (2) it was using some bizarre ' , which was also getting mangled, so I manually (with some search/replace) replaced all instances with something which avoided the symbol, while expanding abbreviations. After some work, I believe I've found them all, but will wait till tomorrow before uploading it to the I/net. The problem isn't a simple general setting, so it mb a LO bug, but I don't have the time to take it up there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
