I have been suffering this bug myself, too. Exported PDFs in the three variaties (screen optimised, print optimised, press optimised) all exhibit this problem.
I followed this xprint advice, restarted xprint, then oowriter, and yet my print outs have not changed. So perhaps this is a different bug after all. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l openoffice\* xprt\*|grep ^i ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-5 high-quality office productivity suite ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-5 OpenOffice.org office suite binary ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-5+1 Debian specific parts of ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-5 English (US) language package for ii xprt-common 0.0.9.final.00 Xprint - the X11 print system ii xprt-xprintorg 0.0.9.final.00 Xprint - the X11 print system from