On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:07:28 -0700
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:

>I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the
>repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream
>Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as
>just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with
>Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I
>have installed.

I have discovered that the problem is apparently in OOo. Scribus,
for example, is happy to embed the fonts in a PDF.

The Bitstream Vera family apparently came with the Gnome desktop, at
least reading the license leads to this conclusion. There is no
prohibition on embedding, or just about anything else for that matter.
It is a very open license.

As a workaround I changed the entire document to DejaVu. It took an
hour because you can't change a font globally. And I have a couple of
tables of five columns and 15 rows. You can't even change a font for an
entire table - you have to select the text in each cell individually
and apply the new font.

It could be that the problem with OOo 3.1.1 is due to a setting
somewhere in OOo. However, I couldn't find any place in Preferences or
Options to change font behavior. If there is a place to change the
embedding of a font, someone please tell me where it is.

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