Hi Gerry, If you're running Linux do you mind trying to bibisect the issue. I can walk you through the steps or you can read them here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect
It helps a lot to get us closer to a solution. Best, Joel Best, Joel On 07/27/2014 09:17 AM, Gerry T. wrote: > Dear all, > > LibreOffice is facing a regression with regards to the > quality/rendering of EPS graphics in LO 4.2&4.3 > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81592). > While the rendering quality of EPS in LO 4.0/4.1 was 'production > quality', the rendering in 4.2 & 4.3 regressed and is unusable for > publishing. The issue exists in rendering on screen, printing, PDF > export as well as with existing documents or newly inserted EPS graphics. > > From my viewpoint, it is a terrible bug, because the graphics of > statistical software (Stata, SPSS) always showed best quality when > exported as EPS and inserted in LibreOffice. All existing documents > and prepared EPS graphics are not really usable anymore on 4.2.x and > later. Hence, I am stuck with LO 4.1.x which is EOL and less > performant and stable (and is missing a few important features) than > 4.2.x and 4.3.x. Hence, I seriously hope that this bug can be fixed > for the last version of the 4.2 line, which is version 4.2.7. > > I approach the QA list for this, because the bug has been tested and > confirmed so far only on Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.04 and I would > like to kindly ask you to perform tests on EPS quality with new > distribution versions, such as Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10Beta as well as > Fedora, Debian or others. For the generation of the EPS representation > in LibreOffice, the library /pstoedit/ is used and it is possible that > newer versions of pstoedit give better output. > > I would be glad if you could try to reproduce the bug following the > steps in the bug description. Please also try the pstoedit command and > instructions as given by Caolan in comment 4. > I hope that someone finds a solution for this regression bug. > > Thanks a lot, > Gerry > > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list > Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org > Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
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