when is a PDF not a PDF?

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 09/14/2009 05:05 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 09/14/2009 04:19 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> You missed my point.  I know the general "Export to PDF" is an old feature,
>> but the option for PDF/A-1a does not go back to the 2.0 days.  (it was an
>> option added in 2.4.0 as it turns out:
>> http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/generating-pdfa-for-long-term-archiving.html)
>>
>> I don't believe the problem is with Openoffice at all, it's with the font
>> configuration in the rest of the system and/or the printer's built-in fonts.
>>  Using the A-1a variant of PDF should allow you to work around the problems.
>>   
> Actually, I didn't miss your point as I fully agreed with it. I was just
> refering back to Rob's post where he was running version 3.0.1.
> Certainly, I'm also thinking that Rob's issue is with fonts and may be
> solved using the PDF/A-1a option.  The point I was making is possibly
> the PDF generation in Rob's version of OO.o might be  buggy.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.

Matt