On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:57:33 -0400, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > G'day. > > In Ooo 3.1 Writer (on Win XP Pro X64), I created a small document that > includes a link to another document on a server somewhere. > > Then I created a PDF by printing to a file (with Acrobat 9 as my default > printer) and then running the resulting .PRN file through Acrobat > Distiller. This process always works fine with MS Word 2003 (and > previous). > > In the PDF created from the OOo doc, the link is broken. I've pasted it > below. It has a bunch of space characters inserted around slash > characters. > > http://%20/%20/www.securedbysafenet%20.com/releasenotes%20/%20luna% 20/009979-001_luna_sa_4-3-9.pdf > > Is there a setting I've overlooked that says "my URLs want auto-inserted > padding spaces around [some] forward slashes" ? > > I pasted the link from Notepad, so no "%20/" were present in the > original, and in the link editor of OOo, I left the text as text (not a > button) and the target URL didn't show any "%20/" either. > > I saved the day by saving the document out a Word file, opening it in > Word and re-creating the PDF, but that's not what I'd hope for when > trying to get all my Word workflow into OOo exclusively. > > Anybody got anything on this? > > > - Kevin > > > > > > The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be > privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify us > immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your > computer without copying or disclosing it.
Why not just export your OOo file as PDF? I do it all the time for my students and it works fine. mcm -- Mark C. Miller, Indianapolis Indiana USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
