Re: [libreoffice-users] LOW: uncontrollable line spacing in PDF output???

["Rogier F. van Vlissingen" <vliscony@gmail.com>]

Hmm, disappointing though. I cannot see how these kinds of things can be
avoided if you are editing a manuscript, and I never had such problems in
the past with OO in 2002, with a book that certainly went through just as
many revisions.

I am clueless anymore how to fix it. If I fix one, another one pops up...

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Fernand Vanrie <sos@pmgroup.be> wrote:

> Rogier ,
>
> Its not worth a issue, its user related due to serial direct formating,
> spaces folowd by spaces etc..When checking the underlying XML you can sea
> lots of unused tags and sometimes the PDF-creator is confused :-)
>
>> The solution and the probable cause...
>>
>> In the end, this problem was fixable, by using 'clear direct formatting'
>> in
>> the areas affected. (Could not do whole doc lest we wipe out italics and
>> such).
>>
>> The amazing fact was that the problem did not manifest in a PDF at the
>> subdocument level, it just showed up in PDF output from the masterdoc.
>> Very
>> likely it was some kind of imperfection with the process of switching
>> fonts
>> somewhere in mid project. Unclear if it is substantial enough to rise to
>> the level of a reportable issue. It probably is, but I would not know how
>> to duplicate it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Fernand Vanrie <sos@pmgroup.be> wrote:
>>
>>  Rogier ,
>>>
>>> We produce about 8000 full color magazine pages a year using OO-LO on
>>> Windows, without any PDF anomalies
>>>
>>> - are you using Windows ?
>>>
>>> - what Fonts ?
>>>
>>> you can also send some problematic pages to my personal emailadress
>>>
>>> Groeten
>>>
>>> Fernand
>>>
>>>  Back in 2002 I produced a book, going straight to print off a Open
>>>> Office
>>>> PDF, and the results were thoroughly satisfactory. In fact, my book at
>>>> that
>>>> time was probably the first production book that was fully produced
>>>> straight from OO, skipping DTP altogether.
>>>>
>>>> Today, 10 years later I'm doing a tentative layout for a book in Libre
>>>> Office, though this time without the intention of going to print from
>>>> the
>>>> PDF, but I'm finding out I could not do it if I wanted to for there are
>>>> some unpredictable anomalies happening in the PDF in LIbre Office. (I
>>>> have
>>>> not tried OO yet. Today I would probably use Scribus or Adobe Indesign
>>>> to
>>>> prepare a proper print layout.) What is happening is that there are
>>>> completely unpredictable irregularities in the LO PDF output for which I
>>>> cannot find any evident cause.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      - There is irregular line spacing happening in the PDF output for
>>>>
>>>>      reasons that are entirely unclear in the original.
>>>>      - In some cases opening smart quotes seem to display at a point
>>>> size
>>>>
>>>>      about 5 times the size of the text in the PDF (not in the actual
>>>> document
>>>>      files), which at least provides a visual clue for the irregular
>>>> line
>>>>      spacing.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have similar experience, and has anyone perhaps found a
>>>> workaround, or is this an "issue."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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