[Solved] Problem exporting to PDF

[Jenny Fry]

For the first time a couple of weeks ago I tried, successfully, to export a page of text into PDF format. I also downloaded and successfully used PDF Fill Tools to rearrange pages just as an experiment. I have just tried to do the same thing again and what was a one page document is exporting as a document with over 70 pages. The first page has the following text at the top of a then blank page. All other pages have similar incoherent text on them.

%PDF-1.4
%äüöß
2 0 obj
<</Length 3 0 R/Filter/FlateDecode>>
stream
xœ•ZI‹,7#¾÷¯¨ó@õh_ H¨ê®>ÌÍÐ0#ãÛ؆9

It may be a coincidence but this problem seems to have occurred since downloading the most recent OpenOffice update. I have tried downloading it again but it has not made any difference.

Any ideas please?

[acknak]

How are you viewing the PDF file, to see the characters you gave us?

[hol.sten]

%PDF-1.4
%äüöß
2 0 obj
<</Length 3 0 R/Filter/FlateDecode>>
stream
xœ•ZI‹,7#¾÷¯¨ó@õh_ H¨ê®>ÌÍÐ0#ãÛ؆9

This look exactly like a valid PDF file opened with a text editor (Notepad).

Any ideas please?

Open your PDF file with a pdf viewer like Adobe Reader or FoxitReader.

[Jenny Fry]

Thanks. I opened the document with Adobe Reader and everything was fine. The only thing I don't understand is that I am sure all I did before was double click the document when I experimented with exporting to PDF.