Open Office Bug

[Andrew Farris]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:30 -0500, Rick Bragg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if it is my install, Ubuntu specific, or just a but in OO
> 
> when I copy a table from the spreadsheet program into the document text
> editor and export to PDF, numbers get all messed up randomly. They
> change into strange characters.  I have to "export to PDF" a dozen times
> or so then it randomly will be OK.  Soooo Frustrating!  Has anyone else
> noticed this? or is it just me?

I've actually began noticing this recently as well, across several
different Ubuntu machines...I thought it was just a problem with my
cups-PDF or Adobe printer...i guess not!

This doesn't just happen to me with tables though... I write a lot of
technical papers, and the biggest issue I have is that it screws up my
math formulas... reprinting it as PDF several dozen times usually fixes
it, but as a workaround in the meantime, I usually just go File > Print
| [x] Print to File | As .ps" then use "pstopdf" to convert it. It a
pain, but it's less of a pain than reprinting the doc.

I'll have to look through the OOo bugs now to see if this is being
worked on...

-- 
Andrew
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