Dave:

I cannot see your export attached. But if my export prints out just fine
on your system then I would reason there is nothing wrong with
OpenOffice suite on my machine. In fact, ODT documents with the very
same images do export and print out just fine.

My next investigation would be with a combination of PostScript and
Splix because rendering for raw printers like my Xerox Phaser 6100 is
very tricky.

Come to think of it if Evince displays the PDF with all images nicely
rendered and then those images are missing on paper, then OOcalc should
not be blamed for that.

Having said that, I had just installed cups-pdf package so that I could
print out to the real PDF pseudo printer. This was a blessing in older
days when OpenOffice PDF export was all buggy. Since I am able to print
my documents just fine directly from OOCalc, having a PDF printer
sounded like a good idea this time as well. Besides I reckon that CUPS
PDF printer is default on Kubuntu install.

Making the long story short, I am now able to print to CUPS PDF printer
from OOCalc getting PDF files about the size of your export, the
resulting PDF is the same each time I print the same document to PDF
from OOCalc, and the best thing is that CUPS PDF file is being printed
out correctly.

Problem solved.

Not to mention that having one PDF pseudo printer for the entire system
is much more UNIX way to do things, and it is manageable and consistent
compared to each and every application (Firefox, OpenOffice, you name
it) having its own peculiar way to export to PDF, PostScript or whatever
format they choose to support. This is something to think about. What
may be considered as necessity on a Windows system is messing things up
on Linux machine.

And just for the record, the packages versions on my system are:

openoffice.org: 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
evince: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
ghostscript: 8.70.dfsg.1-0ubuntu3
cups: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1
splix: 2.0.0-2ubuntu2

And most recently, the one that fixed the problem is
cups-pdf: 2.5.0-8ubuntu1

Hope that this information will be of help to those encountering
problems with OpenOffice.org PDF export.

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