Letters overlap in pdf of OOo

[Robin Laing]

Paul Smith wrote:
> 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
> 

I have both on mine right now.  And as I write this I have both versions 
open and running.

I installed the OpenOffice download into /usr/local as our /opt is 
network mounted at work.

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