On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:57:04 -0500 "John & Mary Linge" <[email protected]> dijo:
> It works fine for me in OOo 3.0.1. I just tried it. > > The behavior you describe is commonly observed in many applications when you > send someone a document in which you use a font not available on the other > person's computer. The other person's system substitutes an available > default font. On Windows machines, that would usually be Arial if the > original font was a non-serif font. Could that be your problem? > > John > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM, John Jason Jordan > <[email protected]>wrote: > > However, one thing I cannot do is set a control in an editable PDF to a > > specific font. It appears to allow me to set a font for the control - > > and it does keep that font for the control as long as it is an .odt > > document - but the export to PDF converts the font to Arial. Apparently I did not make something clear. Whatever font I specify for the document *is* embedded in the PDF. The correct font appears on everyone's computer. All except for a font in a control in a form, that is. Those default to Arial. And if I set it to Times (one of the seven mentioned by someone else), it still defaults to Arial for the control. Again, note that it is just the control (combo box, text box, etc.) that comes out as Arial. I also note that if I export as an editable PDF from Scribus I can specify any of four fonts, and they stick with the control. That is, anyone opening the PDF on any computer will see the font I set for the control. Unfortunately, Scribus allows only four "core" fonts for controls. so it still does not solve the problem for me. However, at least Scribus tells you when you are creating the form that you can choose only one of the four fonts. OOo happily lets you set any font for the control, and then defaults to Arial for the control on PDF export, and doesn't tell you that it is doing so. I understand that if you created an editable PDF in Adobe Acrobat you *can* set any font you want for a control, and the font is embedded in the PDF. I haven't tested this myself, however, as I do not have Acrobat. I don't know enough about PDF to know why the differences among OOo, Scribus, and Acrobat. As for bug reports, it is not a bug. What I need to file is a feature request, and I already did so over a year ago. Nothing has come of it, however. Perhaps it is hard to implement. At any rate, that is why I asked in this thread, because if someone is going to make improvements to PDF export, letting me set any font that I want for a control is a feature I would dearly love to have. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
