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

Hi Rogier,

Rogier F. van Vlissingen schrieb:
> 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."


It is difficult to guess the reasons, when the original document is not 
available. But there are two things, you should check:
1. Do you have frames, pictures o.a. alone in a line? Then add a space 
before or after them. The line spacing is currently broken in those cases.
2. Do you use a font with extended features like "Cambria Math" has? 
Those fonts are not handled correctly.

For true diagnostics the file itself is needed.

Kind regards
Regina




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