From: Ellen K. 

I have a weekly report that has to be delivered as a PDF and for some
reason Adobe thinks the first two pages are a separate document from the
other four.  So I have to create TWO PDFs and then "insert
pages". PITA.

On Fri, 6 May 2005 09:31:09 -0400, "Dave Ings"
 wrote in message :

>I've noticed two things:
>
>1. With non-trival documents OpenOffice generates the PDF significantly
>faster, using perhaps 1/3 the time.
>2. With complicated PowerPoint graphics Acrobat sometimes generates a slide
>that takes several seconds to render in Adobe reader. I've rarely seen this
>behavior with OpenOffice.
>
>Both programs seem to have problems with embedded artwork - colors shift,
>blotches appear, z-order gets messed up. Seems to be related to color
>palette management, but that's just a guess on my part.
>
>My boss was in a meeting with an Adobe executive recently. The Adobe
>executive was very surprised to see how much faster the OpenOffice
>generation was.
>
>YMMV of course.

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