Glenn Seidman wrote:
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
Glenn:
If you're starting with a Word document, and the documents are complex
like you imply, I'm guessing the problems come from converting from Word
format to OpenOffice format. From my experience, simple documents
convert fine, but the more complex a document, the more likely it is
that some formatting will be botched up in the translation process.
It sounds like you're basically using OpenOffice as a way of converting
a Word document to a pdf document, which isn't really the intended use
of OpenOffice. My suggestion would be to obtain a PDF creation software
package. Adobe Acrobat is the probably the most common but is also
fairly expensive. I've had good success with a free program called PDF
Creator. I'd suggest trying that, or else do a search for other PDF
creation packages.
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