https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88941
--- Comment #37 from Ben McGinnes <[email protected]> --- Two work-arounds for this ... First, the easy and obvious one, which we all no doubt already use: keep a copy of 4.3.x handy for exporting to PDF. Advantage: the output is always what we expect. Disadvantages: it's a 650MB work-around which needs to be installed somewhere, ideally in a location that won't conflict with 4.4 and may have unintended consequences when accessing user profiles, especially if both are open or active at the same time. Second, the more fiddly one, which takes a lot of trial and error to get right: it is possible to convert to PDF via Pandoc and LaTeX in a form closer to what was intended. Requirements: Pandoc (available from pandoc.org), latexdiff (available from macports.org or tug.org), latexmk (available from macports.org or tug.org), texlive-latex (available from macports.org or tug.org), texlive-latex-extra (available from macports.org or tug.org), texlive-latex-recommended (available from macports.org or tug.org). Alternatively the much smaller BasicTeX package (available from tug.org) can be substituted for a full installation, but it may require additional work to support all available fonts. Method: save ODF as Microsoft .docx, edit as necessary (at minimum remove footers and page numbering) and then in the Terminal run (in the directory where the file is): pandoc -f docx -t latex -o file.pdf file.docx Note: that images are not included, points and bullets lose their content and tables take a bit of fiddling to word wrap correctly (may require faking it with multiple table rows and hiding the borders). The output will always look like a LaTeX document, noticably different from LibreOffice and other PDFs. Page numbering is automatic by default with numbers in the centre at the bottom of the page. Also note that the best results with pandoc were achieved with Microsoft's docx format, both Docbook and HTML conversions resulted in extremely annoying editing challenges before producing the PDF (though a preliminary run using HTML could produce a LaTeX file with the relevant code to insert images to be pasted into another LaTeX conversion from a .docx file). Advantages: Does not require two versions of LibreOffice, avoids user profile conflicts, saves space from second copy of LibreOffice (if BasicTex used or if LaTeX was installed anyway). Disadvantages: LaTeX tools and libraries take more space than a second copy of LibreOffice (unless BasicTex is used), requires additional editing specific to producing the PDF, loses pictures (can be restored by exporting to LaTeX .tex first and editing the LaTeX code manually or with a LaTeX editor). Recommendation: If you don't use LaTeX for anything else already and/or have no familiarity with it, do not use this workaround. If you have used LaTeX and are cautious with available disk space, try the BasicTex variant of this work-around. If you are more familiar with LaTeX then you might consider this work-around. So, which do I use? Both, with a full LaTeX installation, it depends on the target audience of whatever the document is. If I don't use LaTeX I have to shutdown LibreOffice 4.4 before launching 4.3. I've got 4.3.7.2 installed in /Applications/ and 4.4.3.2 installed in $HOME/Applications/ (to apply the language pack I copied the pack's bzipped tarball from the installer into $HOME/Applications/LibreOffice.app/ and extracted it via the Terminal). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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