On 11/01/2010 04:52 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> 
>>On 11/01/10 15:29, NoOp wrote:
...
> 
>>> What happens when you print to a cups-pdf printer?
> 
> The resulting PDF has all the fonts converted to Times, and no font
> metrics.
> 
...
> 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.

Sorry, I can't help you out with 3.1.1; I had to remove the older
versions (disk space issue) & cannot find that version on any of the
mirrors (US English - linux), all I find is Windows versions.

Given that 3.1.1 is quite out of date, why not install a 3.2.x version
in parallel and see if that resolves your problem? I cannot replicate
the issue on OOo 3.2.1. I can export to pdf w/Bitstream and can print to
cups-pdf w/Bitstream... no substitution w/Times.

> 
> According to the license information (viewed with Fontmatrix), these
> fonts came with the Gnome desktop.

I have Bitstream Vera
/home/gl/.fonts/VeraBd.ttf
Glyphs count
267
Font Type
TrueType
Charmaps List
Unicode, Apple Roman
Font Family
Bitstream Vera Sans
Font Subfamily
Bold
Full font name
Bitstream Vera Sans Bold
Postscript name
BitstreamVeraSans-Bold
License Description
Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc.

> 
> 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. 

If it is a bug, then you should be able to find it in the Tracker
issues... there are 236 currently filed related to bitstream. If not,
file a bug.

You are sucking lemons... You know that you are running an outdated
version of OOo (August 2009) yet complain when you run into an issue
regarding fonts. I don't know if 3.2.x will fix your issue (as I
mentioned I can't find a 3.1.1 to install to test at the moment), but
given the bandwidth regarding the issue you might take the time to at
least install 3.2.1 in parallel
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel) and
report back as to whether that resolves your issue.

> 
> 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.

Really? What has this to do with Gnome? Gnome has had DejaVu for quite a
long time. Perhaps it is your distro that is the problem:

$ apt-cache search dejavu
ming-fonts-dejavu - Ming format DejaVue Fonts
t1-thai-arundina - Thai DejaVu-compatible fonts in Type1 format
ttf-thai-arundina - Thai DejaVu-compatible fonts in TrueType format
ttf-dejavu - Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-core and ttf-dejavu-extra
ttf-dejavu-core - Vera font family derivate with additional characters
ttf-dejavu-extra - Vera font family derivate with additional characters

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ttf-dejavu
Ubuntu Dapper was released on 01 June 2006



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