https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=92011
mcrozza <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Target Milestone|4.2.0 |--- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #62 from mcrozza <[email protected]> --- (In reply to hedrick from comment #10) > There's some funny mapping going on. However even if you fix the mapping for > bullets, a document that > uses other characters from Symbol won't look right. It appears to me that OO > assumes the existence of > the MS symbol font. If you put symbol.ttf in OO's font directory, > OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/basis- > link/share/fonts/truetype, things work. I did a test document with all the > forms of bullet and every > symbol in the MS symbol font. They all come across properly to the Mac if > you have the MS symbol font > installed. Because that raises possible licensing issues, I have constructed > an emulation of it starting from > the URW symbol font included with Ghostscript. I have converted it to TTF > with the correct encapsulation > and Unicode values to match the MS original. See > http://techdir.rutgers.edu/symbol.ttf. It might make > sense to include this with the Macintosh version of OpenOffice. Since this > works properly when installed > in OO's internal font directory, it won't affect the behavior of the system > in general. > > The question is whether this would cause trouble for documents authored in > OO. With this change any > document using Symbol in effect uses MS Symbol. I argue that as long as OO > on Windows use MS Symbol > you want the Mac to do so as well, to provide for proper interchange. > However I haven't done a full test of > all combinations of interchange. My testing has been with Word 2008 running > on the Mac, with > documents originated in Word. I created two test documents. One used all > forms of bullet that are > standard in Word. The other used every character from the Symbol font as > shown in Word. Both > document came across properly in both .doc and .docx files when opened by > OO. They also worked > properly when OO saved them in .doc format and they were opened in Word. I > haven't tested with > versions of Word on Windows. thanks so much Hedrick, this problem was bugging me for a while, finally I did some research and the good people of the OO community have come through again. cheers -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
