DougT, I am starting from Microsoft Word, not Writer.
The problem is that we are performing complex processing on the original Microsoft Word document (created in Microsoft Word) using the OpenOffice API and once we do the processing using this API, the formatting and pagination gets slightly messed up. Then we generate the PDF. We have attorneys using the results of the PDF and they are getting irritated due to the lack of synchronization from the original word document. All the complex processing is doing is replacing simple values in the document so we don't expect pagination to change. Thank you for your assistance, Glenn -----Original Message----- From: DougT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:38 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Glenn Seidman Subject: Re: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word Copy to unsubscribed OP: It's probably a nit, but you say "word" documents. Do you mean Writer or are you starting from M$Word and trying to cheat their lack of direct export to PDF ability? Either way, it would be helpful to see an example of the problem(s) you are experiencing. Perhaps I am less critical than you, but I don't recall a problem rendering a Writer document in PDF which began as a Writer document. DougT Glenn Seidman wrote: > We are having a problem where we use the Open Office engine to render > word documents into PDFs. We cannot get the PDF output to be precisely > the same. The biggest issue is that pagination is different. > > > > Does anyone know what we can do to make the accuracy near-perfect or > perhaps a set of fonts/styles/character attributes that will achieve > very close or precise accuracy? Pagination is the most important and we > don't want to put in manual page breaks. We also want to put in tables > and 2-columns. How will this affect the accuracy? > Thanks, > > Glenn > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
