From: "Dave Ings" 

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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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Geo"  wrote in message news:427b4446{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Dave Ings"  wrote in message
news:42795325{at}w3.nls.net...
> > It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but (free) OpenOffice
has
> > built-in PDF generation. I also have a licensed version of Adobe
Acrobat,
> > and I find that OpenOffice's PDF generation is frequently superior to
"the
> > real thing" in Acrobat.
>
> Really? What's the difference?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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