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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Wed Feb 11 14:43:16 +0000 2009 ------- The '.' is not a valid character in a partial field name (since it's the delimiter between partial field names in a fully qualified field name); see implementation note #82 in the PDF 1.4 reference manual "82. Beginning in Acrobat 3.0, partial field names may not contain a period." Since the dot is not valid in PDF (but valid in the odt) it needs to be encoded. The encoding of spaces among other characters is due to the fact that field names cannot be unicode encoded; the names are unicode encoded in ODT, but must not be in PDF; see implementation not #83 in the PDF 1.4 reference manual "83. Acrobat versions 3.0 and later do not support Unicode encoding of field names." This would not prevent us from using spaces in there as they obviously are ASCII; however the field name can be concatenated to get a fully qualified field name. In these it is never a good idea to use spaces since this is usually a token separator. Also they are forbidden in PDF names. So it might be formally correct to use spaces in field names, but it probably would lead to secondary errors; why risk that. For human readable text there is the /TU value in a PDF widget which can be set via the description field in OOo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
