when is a PDF not a PDF?

[Jerry Feldman]

On 09/15/2009 09:43 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 09/14/2009 05:05 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> On 09/14/2009 04:19 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
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>>> You missed my point.  I know the general "Export to PDF" is an old fe=
ature,
>>> but the option for PDF/A-1a does not go back to the 2.0 days.  (it wa=
s an
>>> option added in 2.4.0 as it turns out:
>>> http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/generating-pdfa-for-long-term-archivi=
ng.html)
>>>
>>> I don't believe the problem is with Openoffice at all, it's with the =
font
>>> configuration in the rest of the system and/or the printer's built-in=
 fonts.
>>>  Using the A-1a variant of PDF should allow you to work around the pr=
oblems.
>>>  =20
>>>      =20
>> Actually, I didn't miss your point as I fully agreed with it. I was ju=
st
>> refering back to Rob's post where he was running version 3.0.1.
>> Certainly, I'm also thinking that Rob's issue is with fonts and may be=

>> solved using the PDF/A-1a option.  The point I was making is possibly
>> the PDF generation in Rob's version of OO.o might be  buggy.
>>    =20
> Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.
>
>
>  =20
No problem. In any case, I hope that Rob is able to find a good
solution. The PDF/A-1a would have been a good solution for me to post my
Northeastern presentations, but I think I was at OO.o 1 and possibly an
early 2 at the time.

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