Hi, Martin Hollmichel schrieb:
what do we expect ? If PDF Documents got generated by layout programs with non standard fonts installed, which are usually not installed on the system, your running openoffice.org. If you want to use your OpenOffice.org environment as replacement for the layouter environment you will not get in many cases a result without loss of the used fonts and thus resulting a modified layout. For PDF documents produced in your regular OpenOffice.org environment the results are much better.
I think I clearly understand this. But, as far as I can see, the problems mentioned in this thread are mostly *not* related to fonts. Can missing fonts be an explanation for displaced or garbled graphics or PDFs not opening at all or crashing OOo?
And in case of missing fonts, please see it with user´s eyes. A user won´t accept his PDF document being garbled by OOo unless there is a comprehensible explanation for that. So it would be a good thing to show up a message about missing fonts if applicable. Otherwise the user´s experience is just: "Doesn´t work". And after all, the product´s reputation stands or falls with satisfied users.
If missing fonts is a common problem for PDF Import and the software does not handle missing fonts as an exception but delivers a wrong representation of the document, then IMHO the software is not ready to leave beta status.
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