Albie Janse van Rensburg wrote on 16/10/2009 02:49 PM: > Andreas Lehmkühler wrote on 16/10/2009 01:04 PM: > >> Gesendet: Fr, 16. Okt 2009 Von: Albie Janse van Rensburg<albie....@gmail.com> >> >> >>> Problem: instead of letters, I only see little blocks! I would guess >>> there's an encoding of some sort needed. >>> >>> >> That issue is probably related to [1], if your document uses a embedded >> subset as font. Check the font properties of your pdf with another pdf >> reader like acrobat, kpdf, ... If not, it could be an also known issue with >> the encoding. >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-490 >> >> >> BR >> Andreas Lehmkühler >> > > I see. I am using PDFs generated by Crystal Reports in a different > application, and it is embedding Arial and Arial,Bold in the PDF. What > can I do about this? The referenced page seems to treat it as a bug, > does that mean there is no workaround? > > Regards > > Sorry about replying to myself like this, but I just thought I should add that if I try to print a PDF I made using OpenOffice, and it contains only Times/Courier fonts, it prints correctly.
-- [ Albie Janse van Rensburg ~ http://morph.telspace.co.za ] A place for everything and everything in its place. -- Isabella Mary Beeton, "The Book of Household Management" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to memory management system services.]
