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Subject: Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:47:28 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]


On Monday, 18 April 2005 21:33, DC Parris wrote:
> I have written a book that I plan to publish on Lulu.com. 
> According to Lulu's help info, OOo should convert to PDF pretty
> well.  However, I have a symbol font that does not get embedded
> into the PDF file.  Since I used paragraph styles for my text (and
> never set anything to use the symbol font) I am not sure what is
> using the symbol font.  I do see that I need to change the font
> settings in a few places, but I don't know about the symbol font.
>
> Acrobat Reader 7.0 reveals all the fonts, and shows their status as
> either embedded, embedded subset, or not embedded.  How can I find
> what's using the (or a) symbol font? Or how can I be sure it gets
> embedded?
>
> I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright
> symbol, and it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer
> font-related attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search
> for the instances of a given font.  Since I don't know what words
> might be using the symbol font, I cannot search on the words,
> either.  Is there an easy way to do this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don

Don,

Select Edit -> Find & Replace -> Format...

select Symbol font in dialog, click OK, click Find

will find all instances in the doc that use the font

Alan

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Thanks.  I'll try that when I get back to my box.  I didn't understand that 
feature of the find dialog very well.
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