https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145553
--- Comment #10 from Brenton Chapin <[email protected]> --- I think you should reconsider. Firstly, I admire efficiency, of space. But that's not what PDF is about. As everyone who works with PDF knows, it is an absolutely terrible format if your goal is to save space. Go ahead and bloat the PDF file with an entire font, to support entry of any text characters. That's what Acrobat does, and it works. The forms fields can display any user entered character in any desired font. Every mainline PDF reader I have tested can show the entered text in the correct font. So, that's what LibreOffice should do too. And yes, the resulting PDFs are huge. Also, the LibreOffice native file format supports and preserves the use in text entry boxes of any font desired. It's a bit jarring to see such a form work within Writer, then fail to export identically to PDF. The whole reason for PDF is to preserve the exact look of a document, and when LibreOffice silently changes fonts, it breaks that expectation of PDF. Don't do that. At first, I wondered if the problem was a limitation of PDF. If you're still not convinced, what of the scenario in which both text and text entry fields are using the same non-default font? The PDF must already have the font embedded for the text, and in that case, adding in the unused glyphs to support their use in a text entry box wouldn't be that big an imposition, would it? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
