Using OOo 3.01 installed from special repository on Intrepid. Help > About says
3.0.1 OOO300m15 (Build:9379).
In a 60-page document I have six pages with three-column frames, and in each
frame there are an average of 16 tables separated by a carriage return. The
frames are not linked. The tables are all identical - two columns, one row, and
the left column is 28 points and the right column is 150 points. The left
column contains just the number of the problem (these are test questions) and
the right column contains a formula. Here is an example of the formula:
font Sans bold left [ font Serif nbold { alignl stack { +LABIAL # +labiodental~
# ‑round # +voice } } right ]
The Sans font is set to Arial Unicode MS and the Serif font is set to Junicode.
Almost every page has two or three formulas which print with a super-fat right
bracket. And when I say super-fat I mean about six times as thick as normal
bold. Looking at the syntax, all formulas are identical except for the contents
in the stack. The number of items in the stack varies from two to six. The ones
that print with a super-fat right bracket include some with two, some with
three, some with four, some with five and some with six items in the stack.
On screen the left and right brackets are the same in each formula, but they
all appear too fat, and the width of the brackets varies in each formula
according to how many items in the stack. I assume this is a problem with
Gnome, because most of the formulas print with the correct simple bold left and
right brackets regardless of the screen view. The video driver is "nv," but I
get the same results if I switch to the proprietary nVidia driver.
If I export as a PDF I get a PDF that appears the same as the screen view -
that is varying bracket thickness according to how many items in the stack, and
printing the PDF from Okular produces the same results as the screen view.
Oddly, if I try to open the PDF in Adobe Reader it gives me an "incorrect color
space" error message and Reader locks up.
What I have tried that has not worked:
o Tweaked the hell out of the settings for the table, changing just about every
setting.
o Changed settings for the frame, every way possible without changing its basic
features (size and columns)
o Changed the font settings for formulas, individually for the problem formulas
and globally
o Rewrote the syntax for the formula every which way that still produces the
proper formula
o Printed to Laserjet 4M+ using genuine Adobe PostScript driver as well as the
PCL driver
The PCL driver outputs the page (incorrect right brackets), but the PS
driver gives an MIO error
o Printed to Laserjet 5SiMx using genuine Adobe PostScript driver as well as
the PCL driver
Both the PCL and the PS driver output the page with the incorrect right
brackets
o Printed to Laserjet 8000DN using CloneScript driver as well as the PCL driver
Ditto the results for the 5SiMx
o Printed to Xerox Phaser 7400DN using Adobe PostScript 3 driver
The page prints with both left and right brackets super-fat in all formulas,
but the same width regardless of how many items in the stack
I currently have over one hundred pages of wasted printouts because every time
I think of something else to change I have to print it out in order to see if
it works. That's because the screen display in Writer stays the same (brackets
varying in width according to the number of it4ems in the stack). It's only the
print output that is wrong.
If I open just the Math 3.01 program and paste the syntax of an offending
formula, the formula appears correct in the Math window (without the super-fat
brackets). And - amazing - it prints just fine. It's only when the formula is
in Writer that the right bracket is super-fat. And if I take an offending
formula and paste it into a blank page (not in a table or frame) it prints
fine. If I copy the entire table and paste it into a page where it is not in a
frame it prints fine. That tells me it must be something about the frame, or
the combination of frame + table + formula. The maddening part is why it
happens with just 12 out of the 100 total in the six pages of frames. And one
page of the six prints without any problem.
The pages are all right-left with different margins (custom page styles). The
problem formulas always appear on the outside column for both the left and
right pages, but not all the formulas in the outside columns print incorrectly.
I have no idea what that means, but I'm grasping at straws.
If I copy a formula that prints correctly from elsewhere on the page and paste
it into the table with an offending formula, the pasted formula prints
incorrectly the same as the one that it replaced. Hence, it must be something
about the position of the table in the frame. But other than being on the
outside column of the page, the offending formulas appear at random. Plus, you
would think that it it had something to do with the columns it would always be
the right column, but it's the right column on right pages and the left column
on left pages, and it is always the right bracket that prints wrong, never the
left one (except as noted above for the different results for different
printers).
I went to qa.openoffice.org and looked for bug reports, but it's kind of tough
to search when there are so many possible things to search on.
I've spent an entire day tearing my hair out. I need suggestions.
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