Hi :) Ouch, i wish i had time and a stable enough internet connection to work on this. Is the document uploaded to Nabble or somewhere yet? Regards from Tom :)
--- On Thu, 5/7/12, Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vlisc...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vlisc...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LOW: uncontrollable line spacing in PDF output??? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 5 July, 2012, 19:58 Hmm, disappointing though. I cannot see how these kinds of things can be avoided if you are editing a manuscript, and I never had such problems in the past with OO in 2002, with a book that certainly went through just as many revisions. I am clueless anymore how to fix it. If I fix one, another one pops up... On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Fernand Vanrie <s...@pmgroup.be> wrote: > Rogier , > > Its not worth a issue, its user related due to serial direct formating, > spaces folowd by spaces etc..When checking the underlying XML you can sea > lots of unused tags and sometimes the PDF-creator is confused :-) > >> The solution and the probable cause... >> >> In the end, this problem was fixable, by using 'clear direct formatting' >> in >> the areas affected. (Could not do whole doc lest we wipe out italics and >> such). >> >> The amazing fact was that the problem did not manifest in a PDF at the >> subdocument level, it just showed up in PDF output from the masterdoc. >> Very >> likely it was some kind of imperfection with the process of switching >> fonts >> somewhere in mid project. Unclear if it is substantial enough to rise to >> the level of a reportable issue. It probably is, but I would not know how >> to duplicate it. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Fernand Vanrie <s...@pmgroup.be> wrote: >> >> Rogier , >>> >>> We produce about 8000 full color magazine pages a year using OO-LO on >>> Windows, without any PDF anomalies >>> >>> - are you using Windows ? >>> >>> - what Fonts ? >>> >>> you can also send some problematic pages to my personal emailadress >>> >>> Groeten >>> >>> Fernand >>> >>> Back in 2002 I produced a book, going straight to print off a Open >>>> Office >>>> PDF, and the results were thoroughly satisfactory. In fact, my book at >>>> that >>>> time was probably the first production book that was fully produced >>>> straight from OO, skipping DTP altogether. >>>> >>>> Today, 10 years later I'm doing a tentative layout for a book in Libre >>>> Office, though this time without the intention of going to print from >>>> the >>>> PDF, but I'm finding out I could not do it if I wanted to for there are >>>> some unpredictable anomalies happening in the PDF in LIbre Office. (I >>>> have >>>> not tried OO yet. Today I would probably use Scribus or Adobe Indesign >>>> to >>>> prepare a proper print layout.) 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