when is a PDF not a PDF?

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:56:28PM -0400, R. Luoma wrote:
> Sometimes, the 4070 will choke and sometimes die on some PDF files
> (well, I need to press the appropriate printer buttons
> to get things working again).
> Up until I "upgraded" to OpenOffice 3.0.1, this problem
> was rather infrequent, but some some reason on the 4070
> the PDF files produced by OO 3.0.1 often look like chapters
> from the Swedish Chef's Cookbook (the Unexpurgated Edition ;)
> 
> Oddly enough, if I tell OpenOffice to print the file
> directly ot the 4070, it comes out fine.  Unfortunately,
> there are circumstances where I would really like to save
> the document as a PDF and print the PDF later on.
> 
> I have been unable to find anything on the web
> concerning my misprintings.
> 
> Does anyone have recommendation on how I can get
> the PDFs printing prettily again?

If you choose print-to-PDF, and print to a file, is that file
different from export-to-PDF (which is presumably what you were
doing before)?

-dsr-


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