On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:42 -0800, TerryJ wrote: > > Rick Bilonick wrote: > > > > I'm running FC6 (newly installed and up-to-date) and OOo 2.1 from OOo > > website (not fc6 rpms). When I create a pdf from the document in OOo, > > the kerning of adjacent letters is bad, and there are other font-type > > problems. This shows clearly in acroread and kpdf (so it's not > > acroread). If I print to a file and convert the postscript file to a pdf > > using ps2pdf, everything looks perfect. What is wrong with OOo or my > > setup? > > > > Rick B. > > > > P.S. I thought things had improved with OOo 2.1 from other paginationa/ > > pdf problems I was having using 2.02 or 2.04 on FC4, FC5 and FC6 but > > there are still strange problems. > > > > Rick, it must be clear by now that the software is a work in progress. > > I understand that good results can be obtained with Extended PDF. IIRC, > Andrew Pitonyak uses it to convert his massive macro document to pdf. I > consult the pdf version of his document in preference to the Writer version. > The link is http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#102785 >
Thanks. I will try it. At least I know I can use ps2pdf. I'm not sure why OOo's pdf converter would mess up spacing of some letters. Most of it looks fine but on every other page the letter spacing in one or two places is noticeably wrong. Rick B. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
