Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 151738
Export to PDF results in large unprintable PDF file.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:02 EST
Description of problem: I exported a letter to PDF format and then could not print the letter (PDF Viewer, or Adobe Acrobat on another system) I was desperate to get an email-able version of my letter, so I printed the letter to a Postscript file and then used ps2pdf to convert it to a pdf document. I was surprised that the export PDF file was 15 times larger than the ps -> pdf document. [user1@hoho2 ~]$ ls -l Digi-Data* -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 525506 Mar 21 13:47 Digi-Drive.export.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33672 Mar 21 14:05 Digi-Drive.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 921892 Mar 21 14:04 Digi-Drive.ps -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 14564 Mar 21 13:36 Digi-Drive.sxw [user1@hoho2 ~]$ This smaller PDF file seems to print out OK. I sent it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): OpenOffice 1.1.3 as in FC3 release-updates as of a few days ago. How reproducible: Only tried once, but I seem to remember doing it once before with similar results. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Write text document 2. Export as PDF 3. Try to print resulting PDF document using Adobe acrobat Actual results: As above Expected results: I expect that the 'export to PDF' document and the 'print to Postscript -> ps2pdf' document will/would be exactly the same. Additional info: Fedora Core 3 - with released updates.
I've just reproduced this using an OOo file consisting of no more than This is a test Here are the file sizes: 149939 test-ooo.pdf 3548 test-ps2pdf.pdf By using pdffonts on both files it becomes clear what is happening. OOo embeds fonts different to ps2pdf. [x@x ~]$ pdffonts test-ooo.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu Type 1 yes no yes 9 0 [x@x ~]$ pdffonts test-ps2pdf.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- FHXUYG+NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu Type 1C yes yes no 10 0 From this we can see that whereas OOo embedded the font as Type 1 unicode, ps2pdf embedded fonts using Type 1C (Compact Font Format), only embedded a subset and did not use Unicode. Both files were described by file as "PDF document, version 1.4". I bet this has been discussed to death somewhere.
I forgot to mention that I selected "Optimise for screen" in the Select PDF Options window.
[root@hoho2 user1]# pdffonts Digi-Drive.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- NAEOAR+NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu Type 1C yes yes no 10 0 WFNOLO+NimbusRomNo9L-Medi Type 1C yes yes no 13 0 LCYGSG+NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal Type 1C yes yes no 16 0 [root@hoho2 user1]# pdffonts Digi-Drive.export.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu Type 1 yes no yes 18 0 NimbusRomNo9L-Medi Type 1 yes no yes 26 0 NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal Type 1 yes no yes 31 0 NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu Type 1 yes no yes 21 0 [root@hoho2 user1]# OK, what does this mean? Why does the 'export' version not print on my (Postscript) printer (HP 2100M)?
Woah there Bob! To keep your chances of a fix high stick to the one issue, one bug rule. It looks like you have a prime candidate for another bug wrt to exported OOo PD does not print on HP 2100M. As to what it means, perhaps because your HP is a proper postscript printer it is having the fonts downloaded to it and because the fonts are huge this is taking forever. This is nothing but speculation though (it could be your printer doesn't like unicode fonts or have nothing to do with fonts at all...).
(just to clarify, I think that "OOo produces larger than necessary PDF files" is one bug and "PDF file takes forever to print on HP2100M" to be another bug).