EPS figures in OpenOffice Impress presentations look horrible

[Marc Schwartz]

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Paul Smith wrote:
> Thanks, Mark, for your very detailed answer. The solution "print to PS
> and use ps2pdf" only works partially in the case of Impress, as the
> pdf output will be A4 format, which is not the same format that one
> gets when ExportAsPdf (smaller than A4, apparently).
> 
> Paul

Paul,

Happy to help.

Depending upon what you need to do, you might want to review 'man gs' 
for more information.

You may need to construct a variation of the ps2pdf command line, for 
example:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=<ISOPaperSize> ... PSFileName.ps

where you can replace <ISOPaperSize> with what you require and where the 
ellipses represent other needed options such as 
-sOutputFile=<PDFFileName.pdf>.

You might have to play around with it a bit to get what you need.

Also, note that some GS defaults are set based upon your locale, so you 
may have to evaluate additional options to override defaults.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz