Our administration (who cannot produce a decent pdf document, they often 
circulate SCANNED ones) has recently distributed a 3-page file (revised 
mission order template) in M$-word doc format.

Since our local staff use linux and prefer pdf, and also the file 
includes two different forms (one corresponds to the first two pages, 
and the other one to the last page), I used openoffice 3 to export as 
pdf in two different files (pages 1-2 and page 3).

Now acroread (which is what most people here use) can display the 2-page 
document, but when one attempts to print gives a popup "document cannot 
be printed" with no other explanation.

Two other viewers (okular and xpdf) instead display and print it 
correctly (although okular forces the printer to print on two sheets and 
not on the two sides of the same sheet). Both however give an console
"Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table..."

Also gv can print it but says:

    **** Warning:  File has an invalid xref entry:  7.  Rebuilding xref
    table.

    **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
    **** The file was produced by:
    **** >>>> OpenOffice.org 3.2 <<<<

Any idea what went wrong ?

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> Any idea what went wrong ?
[...]
with *pdftk*, do:

pdftk corrupted.pdf output fixed.pdf

pdftk will try to rebuild proper XREF table for pdf
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LC's No-Spam Newsreading account <nospam@mi.iasf.cnr.it> wrote in 
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> (...) I used openoffice 3 to export as 
> pdf in two different files (pages 1-2 and page 3).
> 
> Now acroread (which is what most people here use) can display the 2-page 
> document, but when one attempts to print gives a popup "document cannot 
> be printed" with no other explanation.
> (..)
> Any idea what went wrong ?

There is a bug in OpenOffice, AcroRead or the printing system. Without 
further information or the file in question (the .doc and the PDF file), 
nobody can tell which of those has it. 

One thing is for sure: OpenOffice is in version 3.3 now, so if you have 
version "3" it may be outdated and might produce the problem you have met. 
Details count in these things... you should report all decimals of any 
version numbers of any application that has any role in this.