[Discussion] Open Office export PDF but no graphics

[Carl Gehr]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:13:53 CST, 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  

Be sure you are running the latest level of of the SNAP package also.

When I first installed 1.2R on a TPad T60, I could not run ANY DOS nor
Doze programs.  After installing 3.1.8 [I believe that's the level],
everything worked OK.

Carl