OpenOffice/PDF

Mike Roy

24 May 2005 24 May '05

19:05

Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3/64-bit mode. In OpenOffice, if I want to save a file as a PDF, I click on the icon and the file appears in the folder. However, when I go to open the file, I get an error message alerting me to: configure Ghostview When I go to the Ghostview link, I'm not sure what to do or what to correct. The file is also 'incomplete', a two-page document may only show the first one or two paragarphs. Has anyone had this same problem. Under earlier flavors of OpenOffice, the PDF format was part of the 'print' menu, but, under v 2.0, PDF has its own button. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Markus Natter

24 May 24 May

19:16

New subject: [suse-amd64] OpenOffice/PDF

On 5/24/05, Mike Roy wrote:

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Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3/64-bit mode. In OpenOffice, if I want to save a file as a PDF, I click on the icon and the file appears in the folder. However, when I go to open the file, I get an error message alerting me to:

configure Ghostview

When I go to the Ghostview link, I'm not sure what to do or what to correct. The file is also 'incomplete', a two-page document may only show the first one or two paragarphs. Has anyone had this same problem. Under earlier flavors of OpenOffice, the PDF format was part of the 'print' menu, but, under v 2.0, PDF has its own button. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Hello Mike, I'm using the PDF export from OpenOffice as well and had no problems with it, yet. It sounds more like an incomplete installation of ghostview or similar, but not like a problem of OpenOffice so far, if I understood you right.. You could try using the Adobe / Acroreader 7 from your SuSE-9.3 instead. Markus

Martin Schmidt

21:24

New subject: [suse-amd64] OpenOffice/PDF

Hi! I have a similar problem. I can't print with OO2beta on my SuSE 9.3/64bit. The printout is very strange, wrong font, size..... If I export the file as PDF I can view it with Adobe Reade 7.0. But if I print I get the same results. First I tried to get a new GS-Version. But the printing is still not working. A few days ago, I have installed the actual stable OpOffice-Release, with this release it works fine. Also not working ist the pdf-view in Konqueror (Rendering Problem with ghostscript). For me it seems there are problems in OO2beta AND ghostscript/ghostview. Any ideas what else I can try? Martin Am Dienstag, 24. Mai 2005 21:16 schrieb Markus Natter:

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On 5/24/05, Mike Roy wrote:

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Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3/64-bit mode. In OpenOffice, if I want to save a file as a PDF, I click on the icon and the file appears in the folder. However, when I go to open the file, I get an error message alerting me to:

configure Ghostview

When I go to the Ghostview link, I'm not sure what to do or what to correct. The file is also 'incomplete', a two-page document may only show the first one or two paragarphs. Has anyone had this same problem. Under earlier flavors of OpenOffice, the PDF format was part of the 'print' menu, but, under v 2.0, PDF has its own button. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Volker Kuhlmann

23:29

New subject: [suse-amd64] OpenOffice/PDF

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OpenOffice, if I want to save a file as a PDF, I click on the icon and the file appears in the folder. However, when I go to open the file, I get an error message alerting me to:

configure Ghostview

When I go to the Ghostview link, I'm not sure what to do or what to correct. The file is also 'incomplete', a two-page document may only show the first one or two paragarphs.

Yeah typical for PDF output from OO. Ghostscript lags in features in its GPL version. A lot of software, like OO and scribus, use new pdf features which the GPL ghostscript is unable to handle. This of course is going to royally mess up people's printing systems, which invariable use ghostscript as renderer. Whether this is a smart decision on the part of OO & Co is debatable. Try xpdf to view the file. Even better, forget about OO pdf output altogether, it's shockingly bad to not give you any control over it. For portable pdf files, you *must* embed fonts (subsetting is good enough). OO pdf export can't do this, which turns this function into a "nice thought" at best and a "strong invitation to create output which is useless for reliable interchange" at worst. Export PS, then run pstopdf14. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.

Matt T.

25 May 25 May

08:34

New subject: [suse-amd64] OpenOffice/PDF

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 02:06, Mike Roy wrote:

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Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3/64-bit mode. In OpenOffice, if I want to save a file as a PDF, I click on the icon and the file appears in the folder. However, when I go to open the file, I get an error message alerting me to:

configure Ghostview

When I go to the Ghostview link, I'm not sure what to do or what to correct. The file is also 'incomplete', a two-page document may only show the first one or two paragarphs. Has anyone had this same problem. Under earlier flavors of OpenOffice, the PDF format was part of the 'print' menu, but, under v 2.0, PDF has its own button. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

Please make sure you did install the latest YOU update. There was a printing bug which was visible when printing in OOo on x86_64 systems. It is fixed, and you install the fix with the latest YOU update (I think it is in the "xv" package, AFAIR). After installing it printing from OOo apps in my SuSE 64 bit installation works fine again, and since PDF is like printing, you might see the same bug. HTH, Matt

Mike Roy

11:27

New subject: [suse-amd64] OpenOffice/PDF

Hello everyone: Well, as suggested, I did use YOU to update my system and this appears to have solved the PDF problem. After 'exporting' a file from OpenOffice in PDF format, clicking on the icon correctly opens the PDF file. Thanks to all those that helped. cheers, Mike On Wednesday 25 May 2005 4:49 am, Matt T. wrote:

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On Wednesday 25 May 2005 02:06, Mike Roy wrote:

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Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3/64-bit mode. In OpenOffice, if I want to save a file as a PDF, I click on the icon and the file appears in the folder. However, when I go to open the file, I get an error message alerting me to:

configure Ghostview

When I go to the Ghostview link, I'm not sure what to do or what to correct. The file is also 'incomplete', a two-page document may only show the first one or two paragarphs. Has anyone had this same problem. Under earlier flavors of OpenOffice, the PDF format was part of the 'print' menu, but, under v 2.0, PDF has its own button. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

Please make sure you did install the latest YOU update.

There was a printing bug which was visible when printing in OOo on x86_64 systems. It is fixed, and you install the fix with the latest YOU update (I think it is in the "xv" package, AFAIR).

After installing it printing from OOo apps in my SuSE 64 bit installation works fine again, and since PDF is like printing, you might see the same bug.

HTH, Matt

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