Draw export to PDF / SVG text errors

[goulnik]

Using LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 on MacOS X 10.10.2 (Yosemite)
I encounter problems exporting LibreOffice Drawings to PDF, fonts do no show up (it’s only Courier New and Arial Black), I get the following error message with Acrobat 10.1.1 :

An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly.
Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem.

Note that in LibreOffice, I selected File / Properties / Font / Embed fonts in document

ODF test document is under http://goulnik.com/all81.odg

[goulnik]

Interestingly, I tested this under Windows and PDF export works like a charm… SVG export does have the same issues with text rotation and scaling though.
Best way I found in the end is install Ubuntu over Parallels Desktop on MacOS and do the pdf export from there, hoping the MacOS export from LO is eventually fixed

[goulnik]

partly answering my own request :

• there is some improvement after installing LibreOffice 4.4.3.2, fonts do show up, no error message
• however, character spacing is ignored : condensed / expanded are all displayed with default spacing

on a related subject, SVG export does not work correctly either, text rotation is ignored.

for these exports to work :

• all rotated (resp. condensend/expanded) text must first be converted to curve (then resp. scaled)

[BenM]

There’s at least one known bug with exporting to PDF in 4.4 on any version of OS X, see bug #88941. That bug does not affect 4.3, though.

[goulnik]

thanks, but that’s about Writer. What I am experiencing is with Draw, along with other, somewhat minor text glitches. But this one is a real annoyance. Yet 4.4 has an improvement over 4.3