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I just developed an unusual problem when exporting an odt manuscript to a pdf file.
The exported file is a one page draw file showing just the title page instead of a pdf.
How can I fix this??
When you say the exported file is a one page draw file, do you mean the file extension is .odg rather than .pdf?
If you select anything when you export to pdf, then only that selection will be exported. The same with printing.
If the pdf opens in Draw then you should associate a pdf reader to be the program that opens pdfs, not Draw. Draw is not a pdf reader.
Thank you for your reply Earnest
Am confused
I am opening an 150 page odt manuscript and exporting to pdf .
The result I am getting is a pdf suffixed file that is displaying only one page- the title page. am getting a draw file instead of the pdf
I have done odt to pdf exports hundreds of times before with no problem.
Please see screenshot of the top of Office Writer window below
This is not an answer; it should be a comment.
The screen shot does not tell anything. Can you make a two page sample using your title page (change the text only, leave other objects in) and a text page. If that exports only the title page the post the sample here.
Open a pdf reader such as Acrobat Reader and from there open your pdf; does it open? If it does then you need to make the pdf reader the default for opening pdfs
Showing where? Do you use LibreOffice (which is not a proper PDF reader), or do other PDF readers show that odd result?
How do you know that? Do you look at the file icon in the file manager (which, if shows Draw icon, means that you have associated PDF files with Draw somehow - maybe just because you have clicked accidentally on “open with Draw always” when prompted by OS)? LibreOffice indeed is able to open them. But it’s your operating system that chooses which application to launch when you double-click a file.
And your screenshot shows that you have closed the Pages left-hand panel in Draw, so you can’t see how many pages are there in the file.
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Thank you for your reply, @EarnestAl
Am confused
I am opening an odt and exporting to pdf but am getting a draw file instead of the pdf.
I have done this hundreds of times and gotten the correct results from a mulyi page pdf manuscript file .
Mike, thanks for your help in helping me unravel this problem
I opened the pages left hand panel and it shows the entire manuscript!
Curiously, the blue ribbon panel on the top of the Libre Office Writer window (in the screenshot reads “bb.pdf file - Libre Office Draw”
How can I advance the main panel’s one page view to advance to the next page without having to click on each of the 165 pages displaying vertically in the left hand panel?
Thanks again for your help
If you only want to proof-read the document (not needing permanent switch between navigate and edit), click once in the left page pane then use the up- and down-arrow keys.
Thank you!
In proofing the pages, I have found that they have lost their original justified formatting. The problem appears to be in my Office Writer conversion, as the blue ribbon on the top of the Libre Office Office window indicates the original odt was converted to a draw file. See screenshot below
Any idea as to why and what can be done to fix that??
The converted file icon looks like a pdf icon on my desktop, but when open that converted desktop file, a draw file icon appears on my PCs taskbar
Draw is not a PDF editor, it is a graphical design application. You may then meet limitations in interpretation of PDF. For example, if original fonts are not included in the document and they are not installed on your computer, substitution occurs with the risk of different metrics (leading to change in layout).
Also since PDF is a display format which freezes the state of the document (equally in font variant and string location in the page), there is no need to keep the definition of the original styles and they are not recorded in the PDF. Anyway, applying Writer styles over “frozen” PDF strings would lead you nowhere because text is already transformed and is no longer “raw” (upon which a style would be effective).
Thank you!
In proofing the pages, I have found that they have lost their original justified formatting. The problem appears to be in my Office Writer conversion, as the blue ribbon on the top of the Libre Office Office window indicates the original odt was converted to a draw file. See screenshot below
Any idea as to why and what can be done to fix that??
The converted file icon looks like a pdf icon on my desktop, but when open that converted desktop file, a draw file icon appears on my PCs taskbar
Thanks for your message
I am trying to fix this frustrating Office Writer problem and your reply which is using some technical language explanations is not understood by me.
Why is office writer converting my odt file to a draw file and not simply to a correct non draw pdf file?
Perhaps it would be easier to just use an alternate odt to pdf converter. Any suggestions for a good free program that could I could use to resolve my problem?
Would deleting Libre Office Writer and doing a fresh install possibly work?
Thanks again for your help!
It doesn’t. The problem is that you insist on opening PDF files with LibreOffice, which is not a PDF reader or viewer. So, open your PDF reader, then use that to open the PDF file to see how it really looks.
Why is office writer converting my odt file to a draw file and not simply to a correct non draw pdf file?
This assumption is completely wrong.
Let’s start fresh from the beginning.
An ODT document opened in Writer, you can export from Writer as PDF.
A PDF is a PDF is a PDF!
There is no Draw PDF or normal PDF or others PDF.
With which program you open a PDF in your operating system (I assume Windows offers you), you can determine yourself.
But there are also cases where the operating system determines with which program you can open a PDF file.
This can be the case if you don’t have a PDF reader (like Aobe Reaader) installed.
Then LibreOffice Draw may be the only program on your PC that can open a PDF.
(And as you can see, it doesn’t work properly).
The Draw icon in the file manager does not indicate that it is a Draw file, but only says that this PDF is opened with Draw program.
If you don’t have a PDF reader installed on your PC, you should do so.
You can then open the PDF Reader, for example, and then use File>Open to open and view your PDF file.
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Thank you for helping me solve the problem!! Installed Acrobat
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