[Discussion] Open Office export PDF but no graphics

[Chuck McKinnis]

jimscott at joplin.com wrote:
>  
> I have Open Office 1.1.5 running on ECS 1.2 and I thought for a long time that OO   
> PDF conversion utility just failed to do graphics (text always works).   
>  
> I created a Golf Tournament Flyer with some graphics that prints directly to a PS   
> printer from OO on os/2, but after exporting it as a PDF, as always, the text   
> loads into the PDF viewer, but I see no graphics. 
>  
> Today, I decided to use a Win-XP laptop to do the conversion, so I could place a   
> PDF file on the web for download.  I emailed the OO doc to the Win-XP machine   
> also running OO, viewed it, did the conversion to PDF, then emailed the PDF file   
> back to me for uploading to the website.   
>  
> Just for grins, I opened it in the PDF viewer on os/2 and the graphics were   
> *again* missing, even though I had just viewed them using the Adobe viewer on the   
> XP machine. 
>  
> I think I have a video driver missing, wrong, or other video problem, because I   
> cannot run any graphics programs on this machine in Win 3.1 sessions, such as   
> Corel.  Text files no problem. 
>  
> QU: What is missing? 
>  
> ONe more thing... 
>  
> I had removed Snap Graphics on this os/2 machine, installed MGA drivers for a   
> Matrox Millenium, later installed the GRADD drivers.  I have not been able to   
> figure out how to get the video back to Snap Graphics  The system is set up for   
> 1600x1200. 
>   
> I think both of these may be related, and due to some missing component or   
> setting.  Any help? 
>   
>  
> Jim Scott 
> Joplin  

I think it is the level of oo that you are running.  I brought up 2.0.4 
release candidate.  Opened an old RTF file that I was converting for a 
friend, imported a gif and exported to pdf.  Opening the file with both 
Acrobat 5 and Lucide brings up the picture on the page.


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