From: "Geo" 

Ok I can understand the speed, but we use PDF format to send files to be
printed for literature and magazine ads, I've never seen the color or
embedded artwork issues. Usually any color issues will occur if you haven't
calibrated your monitor to the software you are using to generate the
postscript output.

Geo.

"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
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> 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.
> --
> Regards,
> Dave Ings,
> Toronto, Canada
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > "Dave Ings"  wrote in message
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> > > 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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