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

Hi :)
Ouch, i wish i had time and a stable enough internet connection to work on this.  Is the document 
uploaded to Nabble or somewhere yet?
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Thu, 5/7/12, Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vliscony@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vliscony@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LOW: uncontrollable line spacing in PDF output???
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 5 July, 2012, 19:58

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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