Letters overlap in pdf of OOo

[Paul Smith]

On 4/5/07, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> >> > Often, when exporting a Writer document of OpenOffice to pdf (using
> >> > the embedded icon), I get some letters overlapping contiguous letters.
> >> > A small screen-shot is attached. Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Bug.
> >> File it with bugzilla including the font(s).
> >> Not sure who's bug it is - I had a similar thing happen in LaTeX with
> >> the Palatino font that turned out to be a ghostscript bug back in fc3 or
> >> fc4 (fixed now).
> >>
> >> But if you file the bug with OO.o in Fedora bugzilla and they can
> >> reproduce it, they can probably figure out whos bug it is.
> >
> > Thanks, Michael. I have meanwhile submitted the bug
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235341
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> Having read the bug report and having just downloaded the latest version
> of OOo 2.2, I think you should give that a try and see if that fixes
> your issue.
>
> OOo 2.2 is much faster in both saves and opens (at least in calc) as
> well as runs major macros faster than 2.0.4.
>
> You can run 2.2 and 2.0.4 at the same time if you are interested because
> the OOo version will install in /opt by default.

You sure that both versions can peacefully coexist in FC6?

Paul