[TriLUG] OOo, PDF and Lulu

[Hugh Cayless]

It would be worth trying to export to PDF/A, since that should, by  
definition, embed all the fonts.  There's a checkbox for it on the PDF  
export dialog in OOo 3.  The problem with the standard OOo PDF export  
is that it doesn't embed the standard PDF fonts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf#Base_14_fonts 
).  This is fine for viewers, since they're supposed to have those  
available, but not for expensive and twitchy book-printers, which will  
kick out (or screw up) PDFs without all the fonts embedded.

As a former Lulu, (and I'm certainly not speaking for them now) I will  
just say that we always wanted to add OOo support, but the cost/ 
benefit of it was never justifiable.  That's likely still the case.   
Sad, but true.

Hugh

On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Brian McCullough wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Since I got good results last time I passed on a message from my  
> author
> friend, he asked me to try again.
>
>
>
> After a lot of discussion ( apparently ), he was told by Lulu that  
> they
> would accept a PDF file, rather than .odt or anything else that OOo
> would produce.
>
>
> However, he finds that the PDFs that he is producing are being  
> rejected
> because they don't have embedded fonts.  He has been trying all  
> sorts of
> parameters in OOo ( as far as he knows ) and still Lulu rejects the
> file.
>
>
> Any suggestions for making Lulu happy with his PDF file?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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