Paul Smith wrote:
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
Paul,
Sorry for the delay, but it tool me a while to figure this out.
There was indeed some confusing behavior with spadmin and the printer
dialogs.
Knowing that there have been issues over the past few years with OO.org
and dealing with EPS files and PDF output, I figured that I would start
searching for more up to date information.
I did indeed locate the following bug report from mid-last year:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190859
where my interpretation is that there are efforts under foot by Caolan
et al to remove the need to use the PDF Converter approach and use
standard GTK dialogs. However, it is still not quite there. The result
of which, at least in FC6 now (which I use), is that there is no longer
support in the OO.org print dialogs for the single step approach that I
articulated above.
This also shows how long it has been since I did this, as I guess it
will have been in FC4...since I don't recall toggling the dialogs in the
fashion described in the bug report above.
Running a test Writer document here with an embedded EPS file, I can
confirm that using the regular PDF Export and the "Print To File" option
in the Printer selection dialog with the Output format set to PDF, does
not properly print the EPS file, but prints the bitmapped preview as I
previously noted.
Thus, it would appear that for now, the two step approach of "Print To
File", select PS for Output format, create the PS file and then use
ps2pdf is still required.
HTH,
Marc
