Public bug reported:

Libre Office's export-to-pdf generates huge and often-unprintable PDFs
even from single-page documents.  There is something wrong with LO's pdf
export specifically, because printing to the cups-pdf PDF-generator
produces a usable PDF file (also less than half the size), and the
document can be printed directly from LO.

The problem seems related to images.  The test document contains a small
(8K) jpeg image.

Steps to reproduce:

1.  sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

2. lowriter Test.odt
3. Export-to-PDF (produces Test.pdf)
4. Print to the "PDF" device (produces $HOME/PDF/Test.pdf)
5. Print the document directly to a real postscript printer (works)
 
6. lpr $HOME/PDF/Test.pdf  (works)
7. lpr Test.pdf (crashes my printer, YMMV)

Note the file sizes:

Test.odt - 26K
Test.pdf (exported from LO) - 180K 
Test_PrintedToCupsPdf.pdf - 75K

As you can see, the export-to-pdf function produces a file more than
twice as large as cups-pdf (and, for me at least, too large to print).

Suggest figuring out what LO is doing differently than cups-pdf and
consider changing to what cups-pdf does.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libreoffice 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 22 17:06:37 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-08-10 (12 days ago)

** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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Title:
  Export-to-PDF produces un-printable PDF files

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Libre Office's export-to-pdf generates huge and often-unprintable PDFs
  even from single-page documents.  There is something wrong with LO's
  pdf export specifically, because printing to the cups-pdf PDF-
  generator produces a usable PDF file (also less than half the size),
  and the document can be printed directly from LO.

  The problem seems related to images.  The test document contains a
  small (8K) jpeg image.

  Steps to reproduce:

  1.  sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

  2. lowriter Test.odt
  3. Export-to-PDF (produces Test.pdf)
  4. Print to the "PDF" device (produces $HOME/PDF/Test.pdf)
  5. Print the document directly to a real postscript printer (works)
   
  6. lpr $HOME/PDF/Test.pdf  (works)
  7. lpr Test.pdf (crashes my printer, YMMV)

  Note the file sizes:

  Test.odt - 26K
  Test.pdf (exported from LO) - 180K 
  Test_PrintedToCupsPdf.pdf - 75K

  As you can see, the export-to-pdf function produces a file more than
  twice as large as cups-pdf (and, for me at least, too large to print).

  Suggest figuring out what LO is doing differently than cups-pdf and
  consider changing to what cups-pdf does.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: libreoffice 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug 22 17:06:37 2012
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: libreoffice
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-08-10 (12 days ago)

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