Writer Guide 26.2 PDF formatting issue

@Twistappel @ohallot The PDF of WG26.2 has no chapter info on the chapter title pages. The ODT does have this info. When I create a PDF from the ODT, the info is there. I saw similar behaviour with the Calc Guide. Something strange is going on.

It’s possible it’s a bizarre display problem with Preview on my MacBook Air. I shall investigate further, using a different PDF viewer.

EDIT: Yes, it is a display problem using Preview on macOS 26.4. The pages display correctly in Adobe. I have seen this before. Nothing you can do about it, but we need to be aware of the problem. I will create a PDF using my Mac that others can test on other O/S or PDF viewers.

Jean

  • I think the problem is that the mac pdf viewer (preview) does not support SVG format images.
  • We have changed the chapter cover (FIrst Page) and it contains an SVG image as a page background.
  • Try the following pdf file and tell me if the first page is blank,
  • Try also in Adobe Reader
    WG27801-sss.pdf (837,9 KB)
    And the file in odt format:
    WG27801-sss.odt (964,5 KB)

In Preview, the first page of the PDF shows Guide Name 26 and the image, but not the Chapter Number and Title. The second page shows everything. In Acrobat, both pages show everything. The ODT shows everything.

The first page has a SVG as page background.
The second page is a PNG.
In my virtual Machine (MacOS Catalina), in Firefox both pages are OK
Also Safari has troubles to Show the avif images of html of WG262 bookshelf.

I’m going to change the format of the image on the first page and let you know.

I have now changed the format of the first page image in both guides (Writer and Calc) and exported them to pdf.
I have overwritten the files in NextCloud and the links I sent you to your email are useful to you.

  • Download them again and check that they look good. Let me know with the result.

(I hope the problem is solved)

Yes, that solved the problem. Thank you!

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