Re: [PLUG] Open Office and pdf output

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:58:58AM -0400, Eric wrote:
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> I just had an interesting experience with Open Office and their PDF
> export function.  I exported a 4 page document and the PDF was over
> 400 KB.  Ouch.  I printed it to a postscript file and ran ps2pdf on
> it.  The resulting PDF is now less than 29 KB.  I'm not sure why the
> almost 15 times size increase by using Open Office but I will now
> double check when I export to a PDF!

Is it possible that you've merely succeeded in generating a pdf file
without embedded fonts?  I've noticed that OO seems to embed most
fonts on pdf export, which is usually a good thing.

-- 
 Jeff

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