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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : more
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:58:57
Message-Id: 54A3D6E9.6000803@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : more by Philip Webb
1 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 141229 Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site.
4 >> The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago
5 >> & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf .
6 >> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation :
7 >> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf .
8 >> I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd,
9 >> but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged.
10 > I've investigated further & the problem remains.
11 > It occurred to me that it was perhaps being caused by importing a text file
12 > &/or that the original import & PDF had been done by OpenOffice 3 ya .
13 > However, apostrophes & extended dashes are mangled as shown above
14 > even when I enter a completely new .odt file. I've tried changing the font
15 > & using the PDF dialog under 'File', but the bad effect still happens.
16 >
17 > This has to be a bug in LO : whatever the characters in the .odt ,
18 > LO sb able to reproduce them correctly in the exported PDF .
19 > It appears that I don't have a bug account with LO, so I've applied for one
20 > & after checking whether anyone else has run into it, will report it.
21 >
22 > Any further suggestions by Gentoo users are very welcome.
23 >
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26 I'm clueless but could it be a missing font issue??
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28 Dale
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30 :-) :-)