---- Original message ---- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:06:35 +0000 From: Mike Scott <m...@scottsonline.org.uk> Subject: Re: [users] Re: Strange problem with PDFs To: users@openoffice.org
>On 04/01/11 13:22, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: >> Well, I may have found the problem (thanks to Mike’s kind offer to look >> at samples), and it’s intriguing (and slightly embarrassing). I think >> it’s a memory problem. >> >> I’m using an oldish computer with insufficient memory. I made up a >> sample page, using a variety of fonts, including commercial fonts and >> some I made myself. I made PDFs with three different procedures (export >> directly from Openoffice, print to PS file for conversion with ps2pdf, >> and CUPS-PDF). All were perfect. >> >> Then I made a PDF of a document I am editing: about 350 pages (500 kb). >> The fault was there. Then I made a PDF just of the offending page. The >> fault is not there. >> >> It seems a strange way for Openoffice to react to insufficient memory >> (and it doesn’t do anything else strange, as far as I can tell), and yet >> this seems the only explanation of the empirical evidence. > >Offhand, I'd say that's rather unlikely. Lack of main memory may make >the system thrash wildly and run like a snail or even hang up; lack of >swap may crash some (poor) app's. I've never known wrong results like >yours though. > >> >> Thanks to all for your kind help. Time to start hinting about a new >> computer. > >(This is written on a now-dated Athlon [2.4+, I think!], with all of >768Mb main memory. Works just fine except for editing big images.) > > >-- >Mike Scott >Harlow, Essex, England > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > >
