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.
Where did these tables come from? Did you create them on the slide
using the Table icon in the Standard toolbar?
I'm using OOo 3.3.0 RC2, so there may be some improvements since
3.1.1. I created a new presentation and created a table of 5 columns and
15 rows using the Table icon in the Standard toolbar. Then I clicked the
left top cell. The Table toolbar opened. The Table Properties icon is on
the right end of the bottom row of this toolbar. Using this icon, I can
set or modify the font for a single cell if only one cell is
highlighted. When I select two or more adjacent cells, I can set or
modify the font for all of the selected cells. Since then I have created
a PDF file using File > Export as PDF. When I opened the PDF Preview
(MAC PDF and image program), the fonts in the table look very much like
the fonts in the table on the slide. (I used two different fonts in the
table.) So, perhaps, what you found is a bug that has been corrected. (I
do know that there have been several changes made in the Impress module
for the 3.3.0 version due out soon: enough so that several changes
needed to be made in the Impress Guide to keep it up to date.)
Dan
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