The error occurs during the export process, so I have to assume the finished product will appear the same (there truly are no italics in the resulting PDF document).
I'll do some experimenting later today, between clients. I finally just printed the document, then scanned it -- it's the agenda for a meeting tonight and I had to get it out to everybody! Dave On Sun, Feb 15, 2026, at 10:29 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > I don't see this on v25.2.5.2 on Mac or Linux, neither of these has Acrobat. > If you open the PDF in draw does it still give the same error. > Steve > > On 13/02/26 12:07 pm, Dave Liesse wrote: > > This is a problem that seems to have popped up now and then through the > > years, but even after going through years of suggestions I'm not finding a > > working solution. > > > > Sometime in the past month LO updated itself on my PC (or at least > > pretended to; it's still on v25.2.1.2 -- but there was a screen visible for > > a brief time that said it was updating) and now when I export to PDF the > > italic font isn't exporting. This is the Liberation Serif typeface, and > > the non-italic version has no issues. This happened several months ago and > > I found that I didn't have the Archival box checked. I do now, but no > > matter which of the three PDF/A versions I choose I get the message "Cannot > > extract the embedded font 'DAAAAA+LiberationSerif-Italic'. Some characters > > may not display or print correctly." > > > > The message actually comes from Adobe Acrobat (Reader), so I'm not sure > > it's an LO problem, but I do this particular conversion at least once a > > month. LO has been updated in the intervening period, Acrobat Reader had > > not. I just updated Reader, but no joy. > > > > I'm still researching, but any troubleshooting ideas? If I get desperate I > > can print the document and then scan it, but I'd prefer to figure out why > > the export is failing and how I can fix it. > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > <mailto:users%[email protected]> > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
