Issue 32435 - Exported PDF very low quality
Summary: Exported PDF very low quality
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 20222
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.2
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: philipp.lohmann
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2004-08-02 12:46 UTC by tuharsky
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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The original file in OOo writer (113.79 KB, image/png)
2004-08-02 12:51 UTC, tuharsky 		no flags Details
Exported PDF in GGV viewer (92.81 KB, image/png)
2004-08-02 12:52 UTC, tuharsky 		no flags Details
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Description tuharsky 2004-08-02 12:46:46 UTC 
I need to print some doc, and since the lab dosen't support OOo and wouldn't
install it, they suggested me to supply the files in PDF format.

Wow, PDF I could handle with OOo. No problem.

But as I exported the document to PDF and saw the result, I was not impressed at
all. The image quality is very poor, the font quality is strange too. I selected
"optimised for print" during export, however.

The PDF is useless for print in my case, and the only try I could do anymore is
export to hated .DOC and hope it could handle the pictures correctly.
Comment 1 tuharsky 2004-08-02 12:51:57 UTC 
Created attachment 16891 [details]
The original file in OOo writer
Comment 2 tuharsky 2004-08-02 12:52:55 UTC 
Created attachment 16892 [details]
Exported PDF in GGV viewer
Comment 3 tuharsky 2004-08-02 12:58:03 UTC 
There are also significant changes between original OOo file with connected
pictures, ant the exported PDF. The PDF is some 10x smaller. Not only resolution
of images is really "printer unfriendly", but the compression is ugly too.

The fonts aren't visible on screenshots 'cause the only font visible is part of
image in fact, but the fonts are strange in PDF. They seem such as somebody
censored 3/4 of the vector data and left the fonts rendered form remaining 1/4.
The Courier-like fonts look better, the helvetica-like coupled with italic are
affected worse.
Comment 4 tuharsky 2004-08-02 12:58:14 UTC 
There are also significant changes between original OOo file with connected
pictures, ant the exported PDF. The PDF is some 10x smaller. Not only resolution
of images is really "printer unfriendly", but the compression is ugly too.

The fonts aren't visible on screenshots 'cause the only font visible is part of
image in fact, but the fonts are strange in PDF. They seem such as somebody
censored 3/4 of the vector data and left the fonts rendered form remaining 1/4.
The Courier-like fonts look better, the helvetica-like coupled with italic are
affected worse.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2004-08-02 13:06:49 UTC 
reassigned to HI.
Comment 6 h.ilter 2004-08-05 11:34:03 UTC 
HI->PL: I think this should be a dublicate to another issue but I couldn't find it.
Comment 7 philipp.lohmann 2004-08-05 11:58:34 UTC 
At least the image portion is duplicate to issue 20222 (see also issue 10388,
issue 23575). These issues are addressed by new image quality controls in 2.0's
PDF export.

For the font issue (which i haven't seen) i can only hazard a guess that
transparency might be involved, where the drawing layer adds some own rendering
techniques; this might be improved with issue 29581.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 20222 ***
Comment 8 philipp.lohmann 2004-08-05 11:59:10 UTC 
closing duplicate