Malcolm Kay wrote:
Running OO under FreeBSD 5.4
I import an encapsulated postscript diagram from file into OO-2.0
and it displays as a rectangle with some information about and
from the file in red text. Not too unexpected!
But then when I ask for a page preview it still does not expand
the eps code.
Much worse; if I export as a pdf document and the only the
information -- not the diagram -- appears in the pdf output.
Mostly I like OO but how do I get around this? Have I overlooked
a switch/option somewhere.
Malcolm Kay
There are some relevant bugs that have been filed on these issues, both
with OO.org:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9290
and at RH by me:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142535
The solution to the EPS preview is to be sure that the 'Preview'
checkbox in the insert picture from file dialog (lower left hand corner
by the 'Link' checkbox) is checked. This will generate a bitmapped
preview image on import. This is new with OO.org 2.x.
On the PDF export, as I note in the RH entry, the default PDF export
does not render the EPS image in the resultant PDF file, only the
placeholder box or the bitmapped preview.
If you want a PDF file with the EPS image properly rendered, two options:
1. Print the document to a PS file using a PS printer driver and then
use ps2pdf to do the conversion.
2. Use OO.org's 'spadmin' to set up the PDF Converter printer, which you
can then use to directly create the PDF file within OO.org apps. EPS
file will properly render here.
Door number 2 is the option that I have chosen, now on FC4, when using
Writer.
Of course, there's always LaTeX... :-)
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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