[libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-21 Thread Paddy Landau
TomD wrote I think this is tooo new so no-one really knows yet! Is there a difference between freshly created new documents done in the 4.4.0 compared with documents created in previous branches? Yes, there is a difference, comparing 4.3.4.1 and 4.4.0.0. The file size was what alerted me: it

[libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-21 Thread Paddy Landau
TomD wrote I was wondering if there are 2 distinct patterns; … when you use 4.4.0 to edit old documents created with earlier versions of LibreOffice … and the other pattern for new documents. Good question, but I already tried that. I created identical documents with 4.3.4.1 and 4.4.0.0, and

[libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-21 Thread Paddy Landau
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote … i was not aware that you could simply link an image in a PDF document Ah, the link is only in the ODT file. The image is always embedded within the PDF. Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote large or small, resized or not. This may be related to the perceived DPI of

[libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-20 Thread Paddy Landau
V Stuart Foote wrote Hey that was fun to track down. You were spot on... Looks like a long present issue of JPEGs being exported to PDF were not retaining their JPEG compression… Thanks for that, Stuart. I have tested further using GIF, JPG and PNG images, opening PDFs in LibreOffice Draw

[libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-19 Thread Paddy Landau
V Stuart Foote wrote A printed copy of your PDF is not a very good test of document quality. Embedded BMP representation within LibreOffice is at 300dpi. Export print may be the vector format (wmf, emf, eps, svg) or a bitmap rendering preview--at 300dpi. You really need to open each PDF

[libreoffice-users] How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-18 Thread Paddy Landau
I edit a community magazine using LibreOffice Writer. I create a PDF from the final version, which I send electronically to the printing company, which prints the PDF. To create the PDF, I use the settings Lossless compression and do not reduce image resolution. The resulting PDF is usually in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Different header footer content on first page not working

2013-02-27 Thread Paddy Landau
Paddy Landau wrote I love Writer's new feature for headers and footers: the ability to turn off Same content on first page… https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes … But for the fact that I can't get it to work! I have discovered that this is an old bug (reported

[libreoffice-users] Different header footer content on first page not working

2013-02-26 Thread Paddy Landau
I love Writer's new feature for headers and footers: the ability to turn off Same content on first page… https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes … But for the fact that I can't get it to work! It's probably something silly that I have done. I'll explain. 1. I create a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-23 Thread Paddy Landau
anne-ology wrote I've been wondering re. a similar issue pertaining to fonts - on this present computer, all the script-fonts seem to be missing; I wish I knew how to retrieve these from the past since I really liked using some of these. You really need to start a new thread for your

[libreoffice-users] Re: Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-22 Thread Paddy Landau
Thank you all for your responses. It is helping me to learn more. doug-2 wrote I was recently looking at Mint … You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. As jowyta wrote, install ttf-mscorefonts-installer (it comes with the Ubuntu repositories, which you should have as

[libreoffice-users] Re: Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-22 Thread Paddy Landau
krackedpress wrote The wording of embed standard fonts is my problem. Yes. I tried to find out what LO meant by that; all I can find is that it refers to 14 Postscript fonts. krackedpress wrote The last time I used Export to PDF, not all of the fonts I used were embedded… If it will embed

[libreoffice-users] Re: Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-21 Thread Paddy Landau
jowyta wrote Webdings is a M$ font, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings and is not Unicode. Yes, the font is not Unicode; the font is merely the way to display a character. The character is Ò (Unicode D2), but the Webdings font displays it as an aeroplane rather than as a capital O

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-08 Thread Paddy Landau
krackedpress wrote Why not make sure that the version of LO work for the current Long-Term-Support version of Ubuntu Unity? … Is there any way to make sure that LO works with 12.04LTS, 12.10, 13.04, and then 13.10? It probably would take plenty of work. As I mentioned, there have been large

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
I have installed the new Libre Office 4.0 into Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit). It works very well so far. According to the New Features page https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes and today's announcement

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
Jay Lozier wrote Paddy Landau wrote According to the New Features page ... Unity Integration is built in. Sadly, this is not working for me. Did you install LO manually? ... cd desktop-integration ... The installation process is now completed, and you should have icons for all

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
Jay Lozier wrote I have installed LO 4.0 on Linux Mint 13 (Ubuntu 12.04) with no problems. I am using the Cinnamon desktop. Integration was fine for me. As I understand, Cinnamon does not have the Unity global menu. Am I mistaken? Paul D. Mirowsky wrote The authorized version of LibreOffice

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
krackedpress wrote … How much has been changed between 3.6.5 and 4.0.0 that affected the integration, other than the addition of persona to the UI? … I wonder why the integration will not work with 12.xx since that it the current version of Ubuntu? … why would they work on doing the work on