Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5

On 2012-02-10 04:25, CVAlkan wrote:
> Tinkerer:
>
> No, it's not just you, at least regarding the Writer module.
>
> The Export to PDF function has been broken for some time, but seems to be
> related to the size of the output pdf document (it seems to work just fine
> for me on smaller files), but I can't confirm that. I have experienced the
> identical problem on several machines with disparate OSs (Windows XP,
> Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux), and with various versions of Libre Office
> (including the latest Windows version 3.4.5), although the symptoms
> sometimes vary: every now and then it will politely inform me that Writer
> crashed, and then die, but other times Writer just disappears immediately
> after a certain point. The bug number for this seems to be 32771, but I
> haven't been able to locate any indication that it is recognized by the
> developers as an actual bug or that they have confirmed it.
>
> The problem might be exacerbated by the fact that there is another bug -
> when restarting Writer (or Office) after an export to pdf crash, a message
> box appears to say that the file needs to be recovered (which, thankfully,
> has always been successful), and then instructs you that the error report
> tool will automatically start, which it never does. As far as I can
> determine from poking around, there is no way to start this tool and thus
> I'm not sure it even exists, although there are descriptions of how to use
> it available on line.
>
> Without being able to use the data supplied by the error reporting tool, it
> is likely that there may not be enough information about the pdf generation
> failure for the developers to identify what's going wrong.
>
> I've probably used every version of every word processor since Telewriter-64
> and the standalone IBM models in the late 1970s, including all the personal
> computer biggies, and finally decided that I was just plain tired of putting
> up with Word's constant changes in interface (while maintaining the same
> bugs and annoyances) - and paying significant bucks for the privilege.  So I
> decided that my current book would be done entirely with open-source stuff -
> hence Libre. I sure hope these issues can be addressed.
Will the book print to file (ps).
Then will it convert with ps2pdf.

I do this with may be 50% of my PDF generation where LO just doesn't get 
it right. Unfortunately lose linking from the index.
I have a little script in my menu so I just click on the ps file to convert.

#! /bin/bash
# convert ps to pdf
  path=`dirname $1`
  base=`basename $1`
  pdffile=${base%.*}.pdf
  outfile=$path/$pdffile
echo "infile  "$1
echo "outfile "$outfile
/usr/bin/ps2pdf -r600 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress 
-dEmbedAllFonts=true $1 $outfile

steve

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