On 2/5/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> EPS figures in OpenOffice Impress presentations look horrible. Has > somebody here found a workaround? What you will see in OO.org are the bitmapped image previews, not the high quality vector based PS images. OO.org does not render PS. Neither does MS Office for that matter. What you can do is to print the Impress presentation to a PS file (using a PS printer driver of course) and then use ps2pdf to convert the PS file to PDF. Then use one of the PDF viewers to display the PDF file in full screen mode. Note that using the regular OO.org PDF Export function from the icon or menu will also just print the bitmapped preview image, not the PS image. You can also run the 'spadmin' program for OO.org and install the PDF Converter printer, which will then enable you to do the above two step PS => PDF process in one step, since it uses Ghostscript directly. The spadmin program is at /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin. Of course, you can do what I do, which is to use LaTeX. In the case of presentations, the Beamer package works quite well (http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/).
Thanks, Marc. I have just installed the PDF Converter printer with the 'spadmin' program, but I cannot see the PDF Converter printer from inside OOo. Any ideas? Paul
