Bug#594275: openoffice.org: Exported PDFs can't be printed from Windows computers

[Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>]

On 27/08/10 12:37 PM, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> retitle 594275 PDFs exported with damaged xref table - printing from Acrobat 8 impossible
> forwarded 594275 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615812
> tag 594275 + confirmed
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:16:40AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>    
> > The text I typed into reportbug is what you are complaining about.
> > Reportbug doesn't appear to wrap text. Perhaps you should file a bug
> > report about it?  :)
> >      
> It's not reportbugs job to format text you enter in a mail properly.
>
>    
> > Attached are files demonstrating the problem. Apparently it only affects
> > documents that use footnotes -which a lot of mine do.
> >      
> Aha. Important info. From your test.pdf (as well as one I created in
> the same style as yours):
>
> rene@frodo:~/Dokumente$ evince test.pdf
> Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
>
> But I *can* print it from evince, so why can't the "reference implementation"
> Acrobat do what evince can?
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René
>    
A good question. Unfortunately, the people using Windows can't fix 
Acrobat Reader and don't have many alternatives. Of course, it's also 
somewhat unreasonable to expect software to handle damaged files 
properly. Either way, the problem needs to be fixed at the source - the 
OOo PDF export function.

I just tested the document using the Windows version of OOo (3.2.1 - 
build 9502) and it worked. I'm can't imagine why the Windows version 
would handle footnotes differently - unless this is a new problem since 
build 9502.