when is a PDF not a PDF?

[Jerry Feldman]

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 generat=
e
> A-1a PDFs.
>  =20
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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