Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 44667
EPS Graphics files do not show preview and only print the preview
Last modified: 2005-04-11 21:39:51 UTC
Importing EPs graphics with insert -> picture -> from file will insert the picture. The file only shows as a box with the eps information such as the program it was created with, size, res. There is now preview. When printing the document, it prints a preview of the EPS (Company LOGO). Yes, I did print to a postscript printer. Yes the file prints correctly in MS Word. Yes, it doesn't print in OO1.1.3 either. If you are interested in killing any feedback, just mark this issue as a duplicate of another one that has already been closed w/o resolving the issue. Tom
Reassigned to HI.
hello tom, could you please attach the eps-file in question? thanks a lot, Max
I tested on WinXP Pro (inserted an EPS graphic). Note the graphic does not display on the screen in Open Office Writer, only the graphic size is marked out by a rectangle. When I made a PDF directly from Open Office Writer, the PDF did *not* contain the graphic. However, when I print to a postscript printer - to .prn file on disk, and then use Acrobat Distiller to convert the .prn to .pdf, the resulting .pdf does have the original graphic (as desired). I offer this as a hint for anyone trying to get an EPS into a PDF, and as inspiration for the OO PDF team; it is possible to get EPS into PDF. And it would be fantastically helpful if you could support it fully, because the resulting PDF then has full accuracy and scales beautifully.
no response for 2 weeks, no sample file attached, EPS graphic export is taken care of closing for now please reopen if you can repro with latest milestone build and can provide sample file.
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Created attachment 24648 [details] eps file which does not contain a TIF preview
I retested with OpenOffice.org 1.9.87 using the test.eps sample. (i.e. create a new file, insert picture from file, select that test.eps file.) I also tried opening the eps file in Irfan (free graphics viewer program), and Irfan gave the error message "Irfan can only read EPS files with a TIF/WMF inside. Try with Ghostview." So - the question is whether Open Office will try to render contents of an EPS that does not contain a preview? Note that when a PDF is made from the .doc file, it does NOT include the actual graphic, only a placeholder.
Note that within this issue tracker, there is no valid mime type for EPS image files, that is why the attachment is incorrectly coded as being application/octet-stream. And yes I tried using the "other" radio button but that did not work.
reopen
This is no solved in m91 as far as printing. The print is now beautiful. Tom
This is now solved in m91 as far as printing is concerned. The print is now beautiful. Tom
Thanks for the feedback. OOo doesn't have a ps-interpreter, so it can only display a preview image (if available). Since other issues exists already (issue 14163 for PDF-export and issue 9290 and many others), I close this one as worksforme since the original problem (printing did not work) disappeared.
closing issue. printing problem does no longer occur with current milestone.