On 12/14/2008 07:01 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I could swear I have seen messages on this e-list regarding exporting > to PDF from OOo 3.0. Of course, I wasn't using 3.0 until just today, so > I didn't save anything about 3.0. I can search in the archives, but the > search function doesn't seem to allow sorting by date. So I get pages > and pages of posts in random date order back to 2002. > > I am using 3.0 on Ubuntu Intrepid x86_64, installed from the download > file. I have used OOo since 0.9 and I have never had a problem with a > PDF exported from OOo. > > However, today I exported a simple text file to PDF and Adobe Reader > 8.1 prints garbage. Okular prints it, but its print dialog box is > messed up - lots of bugs. Evince, the least fully featured PDF reader I > have, prints it just fine. And all three of them display it fine on > screen. It's just that Adobe Reader prints stray garbled characters > randomly on the page and that's all. > > I am printing to a Laserjet 4M+, which has both PCL5 and genuine Adobe > PostScript Level 2. The output from Adobe Reader is messed up > regardless of which driver I use, although the mess is slightly > different. > > Somewhere there has to be a bug report list or some documentation. Can > someone point me to it?
Revisiting this a bit... The following is a bit Off Topic for the, so feel free to move on if this isn't of interest. I encountered a situation a few months ago where I'd scanned a photo and although it would appear perfectly on screen in Adobe Reader (8.0 I think), whenevever it was printed out (even on different machines - Windows and Linux) it would print with a green band across the photo. It was a photo from a retiring school principal that my wife had asked me to scan. Emailed her the pdf and she was the one that brought it to my attention. So I printed the file directly from my scan and it printed perfectly. Interestingly enough the green band did show up on screen when I checked the pdf in evince and other non-Adobe pdf viewers. FWIW I never did figure out the problem, I just 'Gimped' out the green band from the scan and re-pdf'd it. My point with this 'story' is that sometimes pdf's can produce different results with different pdf viewers & printers. It's not a foolproof technology, just as "RTF" which was supposed to be the transport for Word documents years ago. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
