Re: [libreoffice-users] PDF Importer Problems

Don,

My problem is somewhat different, I think, as I have no problem viewing 
or printing pdfs, even the ones I have created myself. It's just the LO 
extension doesn't show the content on the screen- all viewers such as 
evince, gimp show them fine.

Keith

On 16/11/12 13:53, Don Myers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it is a bug in Ubuntu, or possibly cups, but it sounds very 
> related to an issue I'm having with Ubuntu 12.10. I'm a Realtor, and 
> we have paid access to the court house records to get deeds, 
> assessment information, etc. To print a deed that has been selected, I 
> can view it in Chrome or Firefox like I always did. The individual 
> deed pages are stored as tiff images on their server. If I wanted a 
> copy of it, I would just print it as a pdf. I would use cups-pdf. Cups 
> would show it fetching each image, but in the final document, all of 
> the pages are blank in Ubuntu 12.10. I tried it on a machine with 
> Ubuntu 12.04, and everything printed fine. On 12.10 I then tried 
> printing a hard copy with the regular printer instead of a pdf . Once 
> again it showed it was fetching each page, but the printer printed out 
> blank pages. So this is an issue with Ubuntu 12.10 in some manner. I 
> filed a bug report with Ubuntu here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1066932
>
> Nothing has happened since then. There have been no additions to my 
> bug report. Maybe it would be helpful if you added your problem there.
>
> Don
>
>
> On 11/15/2012 07:01 PM, Keith Bates wrote:
> > I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and LO 3.6.2.2
> >
> > Every month or so our church has a music practice which basically 
> > involves me reproducing sheet music and word sheets, then adding a 
> > photocopying licence number to each piece of music.
> >
> > Typically I might scan 16 to 20 pages in a session. I am using the 
> > program "Simple Scan" to do this.
> >
> > In the past it was straight forward to scan the music to a pdf 
> > document then use LO pdf importer to add the required text. The last 
> > few times I have tried to do this the document just opens as a series 
> > of blank pages. I know the pdf is OK because other pdf viewers show it.
> >
> > I did use pdfEdit to fill the gap but this can no longer be used in 
> > Ubnuntu 12.10
> >
> > Does anyone know how to resolve this? I could go back to using 
> > stickers with the required text, but using LO to add the text prior 
> > to printing is much simpler when it works.


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God bless you
Keith Bates
Narrabri NSW

Jesus is the Way
the Truth and the Life


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