Mirko Nasato wrote:
> (I'm the author of that Python script.)

I know, we talked before a few months ago:-)

> The layout problem I can see in your "headless" PDF is that on the
> second page there is a table but (party) hidden under the line and pie
> charts, while in your "normal" PDF the table is entirely visible above
> the charts.

The odd thing is that the line and pie chart are themselves in a
separate one row, two column table that comes after the table they are
obscuring. The two charts are anchored to the paragraphs inside the two
cells. If you open up the content,xml you can see it. I see no reason
why they should float to the top.

> I tried converting your ODT but I always get the same output both with
> the script and manually. However, with OOo 2.2 shipped by Ubuntu, the
> layout is wrong in both cases, in fact shows incorrectly in Writer as
> well; while on the same machine with OOo 2.2.1 from openoffice.org the
> layout is always correct.

I am running openoffice 2.0.4 from Debian Etch (stable). I tried
updating to 2.2 from backports.org but I got the same result that you
described: wrong on both cases. There were a few more errors in 2.2 (bad
handling of the DIN fonts, causing spaces to appear where there should
be none) so I reverted back to the stable 2.0.4 shipped with Debian.

To make the situation even more complicated is that a very similar
document does work. I have a single ODT with the same contents that
works fine with OOo 2.0.4 headless. I wanted to try splitting up the
sections and using an ODM, then export the ODM to ODT and break the
links*. The result is the ODT I posted that goes wrong.

All in all, a messy situation. I'll see if I can find Debian packages
for 2.2.1 and try that.

-- 
Sander Marechal

* These documents are generated automatically by a system not unlike
your JODReports, but based on XSLT. I wanted to be able to generate the
parts separately, but still end up with one ODT in the end.


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