exporting to eps

binz · Newbie Joined: 19 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Hi,

I just switched to open office 2.2.1. I am trying to export a drawing I created in open office 2.1 to eps and only part of it shows up. I was wondering if there is a fix for this issue. The eps export option worked fine with open office 2.1.

thanks

acknak · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

Lots of strange things happen when EPS format is involved. If you can post your document somewhere, we can give it a look and maybe see what's at the root of the problem.

I often have better results using File > Print > Print to file to create Postscript output, then use ps2pdf or ps2epsi to create the PDF or EPS format.

binz · Newbie Joined: 19 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

I posted a bug report on this issue and apparently it's a "known problem". This issue is likely to be fixed in open office 2.4

olinart · General User Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

I see a similar problem. I imported an eps figure, cropped it with the margins, and added a bit of drawing and text box. When I export to eps only the added drawing and text appears. When I export to jpeg, it comes out fine.

When I open my .odg file, it looks fine, but if I open the ole object for editing, the relative postions of the drawing and eps go wonky and need to be adjusted.
Yes likely the print-to-file will give me a decent ps to which I can add a bounding box.