Re: EPS figures in OpenOffice Impress presentations look horrible

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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

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