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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