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

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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