I'm currently type setting a book and I've been experiencing an issue with the way ligatures - "fi"'s, "fl"'s - within spacious justified lines are rendered with OpenOffice's PDF export function.
Here's an example of what's happening:
- Within OpenOffice's Writer, ligatures look fine and are rendered correctly:
- However, within a PDF export, ligatures are rendered very close together and look really bad - unprintable:
The problem is only apparent within spacious justified lines and only with certain ligatures, but particularly "fi" and "fl" as screenshotted above.
Instead of exporting as PDF, I have tried going to File/Print/Save as PDF and this solves the poor ligature formatting issue, however is seems to be almost impossible to save the document with the correct book dimensions and margins using this method!
So, considering all of this, I have a few questions:
1. Does OpenOffice have a function to completely disable the use of ligatures within a document or PDF export?
2. If not, perhaps this sort of feature could be considered?
3. Do you guys know of a way to export a PDF with the correct dimensions/margins as handled by OO, but without ligature formatting and/or with correct ligature formatting?
I am aware of people using Adobe Acrobat to export documents, but I'm unsure of the steps involved here and I'd really like to avoid moving away from my already formatting OO document!
Any help would be great here!
Thanks!