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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:24:15
Message-Id: 54A147DC.2060408@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem by Philip Webb
1 On 29/12/2014 14:16, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 141229 Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> On 29/12/2014 11:03, Philip Webb wrote:
4 >>> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site.
5 >>> The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago
6 >>> & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf .
7 >>> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation :
8 >>> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf .
9 >>> I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd,
10 >>> but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged.
11 >>> Can anyone offer an explanation or some way to fix the problem ?
12 >> Those links do not work.
13 >
14 > Thanks : corrected above (red face). Also Libreoffice 4.3.4.1 .
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19 At first glance I'd say you enabled "Smart quotes" in libreoffice
20 sometime in the last 3 years, and it's now mangling apostrophes and
21 dashes into something clever.
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23 Tools -> AutoCorrect Options -> Options
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28 Alan McKinnon
29 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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