On 11/01/10 19:52, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:10:42 -0400 > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> dijo: > >> On 11/01/10 15:29, NoOp wrote: >>> On 10/31/2010 11:54 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Then I tried printing to file. I did this several times using >>>> different >>> What happens when you print to a cups-pdf printer? > The resulting PDF has all the fonts converted to Times, and no font > metrics. > >> That is my default "printer" for Ubuntu 10.10. I created a test >> document with 60 script >> and handwritten fonts in it and printed it via cups-pdf. Then I copied >> it over to a >> Vista machine that had only 2 or 3 of those fonts installed. The >> documents showed >> the correct fonts when I viewed in with Adobe Reader 9. So it seemed >> to embed the >> fonts properly via cups-pdf on Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. >> >> I rarely use OOo's Export to PDF anyways. >> >> ALSO, if you use Windows, use doPDF. It is a free PDF printer that >> embeds the fonts properly. That is what I use on the Vista system. > Fedora 11 x86_64 with OOo 3.1.1 from OOo, not the repositories. > > The problem is only Bitstream Vera family. I have hundreds of other > fonts installed, including Adobe OTF Pro fonts. OOo is happy to embed > and print all of them, all except the Bitstream Vera family. At the same > time all my other apps (Abiword, Scribus, etc.) will print and embed > the Bitstream Vera family without a problem. > > According to the license information (viewed with Fontmatrix), these > fonts came with the Gnome desktop. > > It is clearly a bug in OOo 3.1.1. Eventually I will move up to 3.2, > which hopefully will resolve the problem. In the meantime, for this > project I just changed all the fonts to DejaVu. > > For those not aware, DejaVu is a FOSS remaking of the Bitstream Vera > family, adding additional glyphs and eliminating any question about > licensing. A lot of distros are now shipping with DejaVu instead of > Bitstream Vera. Evidently Gnome hasn't got there yet. Ubuntu 10.10 has DejaVu San [9 fonts styles], Mono [4 styles], and Serif [8 styles]. I do not know if it came with 10.10 or did it go back all the way back to 9.x. All I know is I did not remember installing it myself on this desktop. Just checked, DejaVu is not in my sorted part of my 100K fonts in my collection. So it must have come with Ubuntu.
As for GNOME, I do not know about that. Some tell me that Ubuntu is not GNOME, even when it asked me if I wanted to use GNOME only option at the current log on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
