The pdf contains the descriptive text of the eps file, not the actual eps file figure. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert eps picture diagram into swriter document 2. Export pdf 3. View pdf Actual Results: pdf display box with eps file details Expected Results: pdf should show the eps file contents, ie diagram This looks like a long-standing bug, with openoffice itself. I did the same operation with openoffice-1.1.0 a while ago, and it was ok then (From the correct pdf: /Producer(GNU Ghostscript 7.05) /Creator(OpenOffice.org 1.1.0) /Author(fox) /CreationDate(Sun Apr 18 20:32:49 2004)) The equivalent bit of the pdf file from the bad pdf (OpenOffice.org 2.0) are: /Author<FEFF0050006500740065007200200046006F0078> /Creator<FEFF005700720069007400650072> /Producer<FEFF004F00700065006E004F00660066006900630065002E006F0072006700200032002E0030> /CreationDate(D:20051201183325Z' See also http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252279 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=14163 emerge -pv openoffice: [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 +curl +eds +gnome +gtk +java -kde -ldap +mozilla -nas +xml2 +zlib 0 kB emerge -pv ghostscript [ebuild R ] app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r8 +X -cjk +cups -emacs +gtk 0 kB emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/home/gentoo/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://peter/pub http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/gentoo/portage" SYNC="rsync://peter/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl doc dts dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imagemagick imlib java jpeg lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lynxkeymap mad mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qemu-fast qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang softmmu speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
This is really something upstream has to solve, please add your comment to the bug you listed
Actually converting eps to pdf is not an easy feat which requires a postscript interpreter. I don't expect that openoffice has desires to include a postscript interpreter. What you could do is look for pstoedit. The metadata is correct though. The author value is 16 bit unicode encoded as a hex string. It's value is not surprisingly "Peter Fox" (FEFF is a unicode marker that indicates 16bit unicode and little endian byte order). The creator is "writer" and the producer is: "OpenOffice.org 2.0". The date value, while not completely quoted is actually correct, while the 1.1 openoffice date is in the wrong format.
