PErhaps I am missing the point but why not upgrade to the beta of open 
office which can print directly to pdf. My resume worked fine through 
that process. http://www.public.asu.edu/~rwultsch/rob's%20resume.pdf

Kevin Brown wrote:

> Having seen a similar behavior on MacOSX under PDF.  I would guess that 
> somehow you are missing a font that is being used by the PDF.  Do the 
> fonts of the text look different on the screen vs the printed version of 
> the PDF?
> 
> If so, then that is the problem.
> 
>> I havn't investigated this problem close enough to know exactly what the
>> problem is, but it ussually happens when there is an image involved...
>> especially a gif with a transparency.  About the only way that I have
>> found to "solve" the problem is to remove the image, save the file to
>> another format (.doc format seems to be fine), close the document, reopen
>> the newly saved file and resave it in a native format.  As for the image,
>> if you change it to something without a transparency, it should work.
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ed Skinner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>     I have an OpenOffice original that I "print" to a postscript file 
>>> that
>>> looks (in "gv") and prints (via "lp") correctly. I then use "ps2pdf" to
>>> convert it to PDF and, in "acroread" and "xpdf" it still looks fine. 
>>> Printing
>>> from OpenOffice of the original, or using "lp" on the postscript file 
>>> looks
>>> great. But when I print ("lp") the PDF version, it looks like all the 
>>> text is
>>> overprinted (in very large point sizes) in the bottom left-hand 
>>> corner of the
>>> page. My system is RedHat 8.0 and printing is via CUPS (which I think is
>>> irrelevent). Other PDFs created via this same path print fine.
>>>     The "data" is my professional resume which needs to go to 
>>> prospective
>>> clients and/or employers as PDF: I am hesitant, therefore, to send 
>>> something
>>> that may or may not be printable. (It looks and prints correctly from a
>>> Windows 98 machine, too.)
>>>     Any clues where I should begin?
> 
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