She's written this using Openoffice.org 3.x on a Mac, and when exporting the automatically-generated table of contents to PDF, the dots run right into the page numbers. It's icky; you can see some of them in the image at left.
I did a web search on "ugly table of contents openoffice pdf" (no quotes) on duckduckgo.com, then on google; the latter pointed me at this article; it wasn't about this exact problem, but there was a good suggestion -- try using another font.
I therefore went to Format→Styles and Formatting and selected paragraph style "Contents 1". I changed the font from Verdana to Times New Roman. Same for "Contents 2".
The result is at right. I also changed the font size from 10pt to 12pt; for some reason the lines are closer together with Times New Roman, and increasing the font size more or less restored the line spacing.
What a chore! The good thing is that at least some help was available online.
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