[Gllug] Libraries for writing OpenOffice .sxw files?

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:10:56PM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> Hmm - you (or someone else) might be able to answer a question that has
> mildly bugged me for years, but I've never bothered to actually find out
> the answer to. I've seen many documents, written in TeX, where the
> output PostScript is typographically beautiful, but which, when
> converted to PDF, display a rendering problem that makes them look at
> though each letter has different vertical alignment. What actually
> causes that? Some font weirdness or something?

I've seen this too, and assumed it was font wierdness.

Just an update though: I'm now generating groff 'ms' format files from
the database, and running groff -ms | ps2pdf, which generates pretty
reasonable looking PDF files. The important thing is how quick it is,
compared to mucking around with Open Office. Like milliseconds
vs. deciminutes ... I haven't found a downside to this yet, although
I've yet to start doing any complex tables.

Rich.

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