John Jason Jordan wrote:
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.
You did not mention what you did in Impress to create the PDF
document. Did you use the PDF icon? Or, did you use the File > Export as
PDF?
The easiest way to change font families (Bitstream Vera Sans
Regular and Bold to DejaVu) is to change the font in the Styles and
Formatting dialog (F11 key). With your presentation opened in Impress,
type the F11 key to open this dialog. At the top of this dialog are two
icons on the left side: Graphics Styles and Presentations Styles. Make
sure the Presentation Styles is selected. The styles you must concern
yourself are the ones you used (perhaps without knowing it) among these:
Notes, Outline 1, ...., Outline 9, Subtitle, and Title. Right click the
style whose font you want to change and click Modify. Select the font
you want from the list. Click OK. I'm fairly certain that directions as
to how to modify any of these styles are found in the Impress Guide.
(The latest version should be available through the OOo website (Wiki
section) in the next week or so.) This guide contains quite a bit of
information about how to use Impress if you want much more information.
The chapter "Getting Started with Impress" from the Getting Started
Guide will likely give you all the information you need about modifying
a Presentation Style in Impress. It may be all you need.
Dan
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