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From: NoOp on 9 Apr 2008 21:46
On 04/09/2008 11:26 AM, Matt Greenwolfe wrote:
> I'm passing along a discussion with Bluebeam software, who provide
> the program PDFRevu to our school. The openoffice pdf converter
> fails to put in some lines of code which prevent the file from being
> opened and edited by Revu.
>
> See below:
>
> From: bluebeamsupport(a)bluebeam.com
> [mailto:bluebeamsupport(a)bluebeam.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008
> 1:48 PM To: Sam Morris Subject: [359-0F8F360E-1E3B] BbWeb07 - Support
> question
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> We had our developers look at the PDF and discovered a few things.
> The error will occur regardless of whether any new objects have been
> added to the PDF. That is, if you try to save the file without making
> any changes, you'll still get the error. So, it's actually unrelated
> to inking. The root of the problem is that the Open Office PDF
> Converter is writing a PDF that is missing some lines of code that
> are required for a PDF viewer to parse the file properly. Adobe
> Reader seems to be able to save the file without errors because
> they're anticipating this special case scenario. We'll be looking
> into this in a little more detail, but for now, there's not much you
> can do other than to use a converter that writes a proper PDF. If you
> have Open Office installed on the same machine with Bluebeam PDF
> Revu, you can use the Bluebeam PDF printer.
>

They could be right if they are looking for something like a PDF/A-1
format (which is now supported in 2.4) and you only exported in the
standard OOo PDF export without specifying PDF/A-1. However, unless they
can tell you specifically what lines of code they are talking about no
action can be taken. Can you please ask them to specify?

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From: NoOp on 10 Apr 2008 00:12
On 04/09/2008 06:45 PM, NoOp wrote:

>
> They could be right if they are looking for something like a PDF/A-1
> format (which is now supported in 2.4) and you only exported in the
> standard OOo PDF export without specifying PDF/A-1. However, unless they
> can tell you specifically what lines of code they are talking about no
> action can be taken. Can you please ask them to specify?
>

Matt wrote back:

"Yes. upgrading to 2.4 solved the problem."

So apparently it was the PDF/A-1 issue.


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