PDFs from OOo do not have proper appearance

See attachment—demonstrates the problem. Appears bad both in Evince and Adobe’s “Acrobat Reader” program.

In my case, it is not ugly, but not exactly the same as in the .odt file. For example, in one lf my files (in french) :

EXPÉRIENCE PROFESSIONNELLE

becomes

EXP ÉRI EN CE PR OFESSI ONN ELL E

In fact, everything is the same (for me... but I haven't created a lot of files) but some titles, where there are spaces that appear.
This does not happen in Dapper or Edgy with the same file. It was already doing the same thing with the 2.1.0 version.

I don't see any problems with the pdf; could you attach the .odt as well?

I can create another, identical, ODT for this today. In the meantime, look closely at ¶ 7 in that sample; that is where the spacing problems are the most apparent. Also, note that you most likely do not have all of the fonts that I have, so when I re-create the ODT sample, you will not be able to see it properly. In ¶ 7, “Ubuntu”, the words “at large”, and “last” all have issues with spacing. The problem does seem to be more prominent in Times New Roman than other fonts.

Actually, I have a better example. This is a copy of Les Miserables, an excerpt, anyway—a copy would be much too large—but you can see the formatting issues in this one as well. This is the ODT, and the PDF is forthcoming. The problems are still present in both Evince and Adobe’s Acrobat Reader.

Here is the PDF copy.

Why has this thread dried up? Has the problem been solved?
Michael, I think you should have pointed to how the word 'Ubuntu' is distorted in the first line of the seventh paragraph of your example document (the first one you posted). That should really be obvious to everyone, and it is definitely not a minor problem.

Regards,
Klaus

Do you still have this problem on Ubuntu 7.10 OpenOffice 2.3.0? I can not reproduce it on the new version.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

No. It does indeed appear to be fixed on OOo 2.3.0 on Gutsy. Mind you, I am using a build that fixes the GTK+ issue (bug 131526), but I see no reason that it would be any different from the official Ubuntu build, since the only modification is the addition of the upstream patch that fixes the GTK+ theme issue. Going ahead and marking this one as fixed.