Troubleshooting Converting PDF fails

[garfieldus]

hey there,

I recently tried to print a file from OpenOffice.org Writer 3.1.1 through CUPS' Generic PS filter. I got a PostScript and converted it to PDF via ps2pdf.
Everything's fine so far, but when I send the PDF (see attachment) to amazon's converter, I only receive get an empty page at my kindle.

Perhaps somebody has an idea or already some experience, why this fails.

(Exporting a PDF from OOo is no alternative, as I wrote a backend for cups to automagically push printouts to my kindle)

best regards,
garfieldus

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by garfieldus

hey there,

I recently tried to print a file from OpenOffice.org Writer 3.1.1 through CUPS' Generic PS filter. I got a PostScript and converted it to PDF via ps2pdf.
Everything's fine so far, but when I send the PDF (see attachment) to amazon's converter, I only receive get an empty page at my kindle.

Perhaps somebody has an idea or already some experience, why this fails.

(Exporting a PDF from OOo is no alternative, as I wrote a backend for cups to automagically push printouts to my kindle)

best regards,
garfieldus

I looked at this with Acrobat's Content view. I can't do any successful word searches, only on individual letters. Something about your PDF creation workflow is busting the words up into 1 or 2 letter chunks (see screenshot). Since a successful conversion relies on being to identify word boundaries properly, this PDF can't be converted. I think you'll find other PDF conversion tools will have the same problem - but it might be worth trying a couple of alternatives (e.g. calibre).

[kevinp]

Get rid of the PDF step. Converting anything from PDF is a crap shoot. Your best bet is to save the file in HTML format from OO Writer and then use Calibre to convert it.

[garfieldus]

That's an interessting behaviour which probably occurs when OOo prints something.
Thanks a lot for your help!