when is a PDF not a PDF?

[R. Luoma]

I have upgraded to OpenOffice 3.1.1 and the problem seems
to have gone away (though I notice that PDF/A-1a option has
been set by default, now).  Since my concern was to get
printable PDF files, I probably will not investigate further
unless I once again get PDF documents that inspire
comments of an unprintable character.

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:05:22 -0400
Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 09/14/2009 03:08 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> > There's a specific PDF variant (used by people who are fanatical about
> > archival) that embeds *all* fonts: PDF/A-1a.  My version of Openoffice
> > (3.1.1 / Fedora 11) has an option in the "Export as PDF" dialog to save in
> > this format.
> >
> > Alternatively, I'm guessing you can tune the Cups-pdf driver to generate
> > A-1a PDFs.
> >   
> AFAIK, all versions of OpenOffice had export to PDF at least back in the
> 2.0 days. If I recall, some of the early versions of 3.0 had some issues
> with both printing and with PDFs. I would suggest that Rob download the
> latest version (3.1.1) and test the export to PDF from there. I was
> looking at the download table, and most of the Linux variants support
> 3.1.1, except Mac OSX for PPC.  When I was teaching at Northeastern, I
> placed all my presentations online at PDFs produiced by OpenOffice, but
> some times the fonts did not render well.
> 
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R. Luoma