Open Office Bug

[NoOp]

On 12/15/2009 01:34 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 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...
> 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/244353

I can verify that it is an (U)OOo build issue. I exported to pdf the
test2.odt listed in
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/244353/comments/28>
in (U)OOo 3.1:
$ cat /usr/lib/openoffice/program/versionrc
[Version]
AllLanguages=en-US
BuildVersion=openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1, Thu Oct 22 20:13:41
UTC 2009
buildid=310m19(Build:9420)
ExtensionUpdateURL=http://updateext.services.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
OOOBaseVersion=3.1
ProductBuildid=9420
ProductMajor=310
ProductMinor=19
ProductSource=OOO310
UpdateID=OpenOffice.org_3_en-US
UpdateURL=
UpdateUserAgent=<PRODUCT> (${buildid}; ${_OS}; ${_ARCH};
BundledLanguages=${AllLanguages})
Vendor=Debian and Ubuntu

and the result was garbage text in the formalas. I then opened the doc
in standard OOo 3.1:
$ cat /opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc
[Version]
AllLanguages=en-US
buildid=310m19(Build:9420)
ExtensionUpdateURL=http://updateext.services.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
OOOBaseVersion=3.1
ProductBuildid=9420
ProductMajor=310
ProductMinor=19
ProductSource=OOO310
UpdateID=OpenOffice.org_3_en-US
UpdateURL=http://update32.services.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update?pkgfmt=deb
UpdateUserAgent=<PRODUCT> (${buildid}; ${_OS}; ${_ARCH};
BundledLanguages=${AllLanguages})

and the export is correct. You can rule out cups-pdf as well, print to
cups-pdf and to ps works w/o issue. I'll comment on that bug later
today, but I think that this is the isse that you are seeing.