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Bug#284047: openoffice.org: same problem here; PDF compression seems to be disabled



Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.3-3
Followup-For: Bug #284047

I noticed this problem with a drawing which contains about 70 drawing
objects (mostly lines, arrows and ellipses), 10 text frames (less than
50 characters total in FreeSans font) and no bitmap graphics.

If I export this drawing as PDFs I get huge files:
1.2 MB for 'press optimized'
646 KB for 'print optimized' and
161 KB for 'screen optimized'.

There is no noticable difference in quality when these files are viewed
with Xpdf or acrobat reader. (The fonts are embedded as subsets in all
cases.) When I use pdftk to compress the files I can reduce their sizes
to 221 KB, 119 KB, and 37 KB, respectively.

The original files are all uncompressed ASCII-text of coordinates etc.
It seems that the PDF compression is broken now.

As a workaround something like
pdftk large.pdf output small.pdf compress
can be used to produce the compressed 'small.pdf' from the uncompressed
'large.pdf'. (needs the package 'pdftk')

I do not understand why the PDF file size of a drawing without bitmap
images depends so strongly on the output quality settings; this might
point to yet another bug in the PDF export routines. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-flo
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii  dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.24.1     Common utilities for spelling dict
ii  openoffice.org-bin            1.1.3-3    OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files   1.1.3-3+1  Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.3-3    English (US) language package for 
ii  ttf-opensymbol                1.1.3-3    The OpenSymbol TrueType font

-- no debconf information



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