Comment 22 for bug 281234

In my case the bug happens only using Ubuntu OO not the original files downloaded from www.openoffice.org, I posted this elsewere:

[QUOTE]I am running Jaunty with OpenOffice.org 3.01 in 3 different machines, a Dell Workstation with dual Xeon processors, an HP laptop with a dual Centrino processor, and a small HP laptop with a dual AMD Turion64.

For some time now I have noticed that when I write a document with lots of equations in it, which look OK in the OO writer or its printouts, the digits (1,2,...,0) get more or less randomly distorted (replaced by a phony symbol) when the document is exported to pdf format. I first thought that it might have something to do with the fonts used (changing from Bitstream Vera Sans to Dejavu Sans or Nimbus Roman 9 makes no difference), but this was not the case. By more or less random I mean it might change from one conversion to the next, or appear only after page 13, while the equations from 1 to 12 might be OK (at least most of the times for that document).

But I recently realized that the bug appears only when I export to pdf in my small laptop (HP Pavillion tx1230la with memory expanded to 4 gB, AMD Turion64x2) and does not happen when exporting the same document using the same version of Ubuntu and OO in neither of the two other machines. The OO version installed in the 3 machines was installed using the Synaptic Package Manager provided by Ubuntu and from Ubuntu's repositories.

Furthermore, today I downloaded OO 3.0.1 from the OpenOffice.org site (Debian packages for x86-64 systems) and installed everything in the DEBS subdirectory using

sudo dpkg -i *

and to my surprise the conversions to pdfs in my HP Pavilion tx1230la seem to be working perfectly when I use the OO writer downloaded from the OO site directly.

My conclussion: There is a bug in the Ubuntu for x86-64 OO version which does not exists in the packages downloaded directly from the www.OpenOffice.org site.

Furthermore, I have the feeling that the bug is not new, I observed distorted digits in some of my manuscripts exported to pdf using Ubuntus's OO 2.x as early as 2 years ago, but was unable to pinpoint the problem as I did now. As said is a somewhat random problem.[/QUOTE]