open office pdf export problem

[cmus]

I hope by posting this message I save someone the 3 hours it took me to figure out what was going wrong with my attempt to export a document from open office as a PDF file. I had a large (45 page) document with some intricate formatting and inserted graphic files. When I would go to export it as a PDF a couple of pages would look really wierd with text and images moved to strange locations around the page. I thought I had some strange formatting issues surrounding the images I had inserted and tried every different solution I could. The trick that finally made the export work smoothly was to remove a couple of fractions that were included in the text (e.g. I changed 1/4 to 0.5 and 3/4 to 75%). Stupid bug with the export program. Hope none of you have ad the same problem and given up before figuring it out.

 

Aloha,

 

Craig

 

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[Steve Scrimpshire]

Thanks,

Make sure to post about it here (if there's not already info about it there), too:

http://www.oooforum.org/

[gmac]

re pdf. Does OO allow you to edit the pdf file or is it simply youcan export a document as a pdf file once you've created it? I wasn't too impressed with OO when I tried it initially but looking at soem of these posts i mighht have a second look.

[Guest Danny_G]

OO.org is not a PDF editor, not yet :)