I am a student of linguistics. I have StarOffice 7 (patch 4) on a Windows 2000 desktop and OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 on my Linux laptop. I am having a terrible time with IPA (phonetic) fonts. The characters appear fine on screen, but the font data must not be getting to the printer, because some or all of the characters do not print, or the wrong character prints.
To see the characters that these fonts contain (at a minimum -- there are commercial fonts with thousands of glyphs) go to: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm To test various fonts I copied that page into StarOffice on the Windows machine, using paste special and no formatting. Then I took each section and converted to a table so I could apply the font just to the left column. When I apply any font that I know has the full IPA basic character set to the left column the correct character appears on screen, but something entirely different is what comes out of the printer. The printer in question is an HP Laserjet PostScript Level 2 (genuine Adobe). To see exactly what I mean, go to the above site and copy the non-spacing diacriticals into a new OpenOffice document, using paste special, no formatting. Select it all and convert it to a table. Select the left column only and apply Lucida Sans Unicode (if you have a Windows computer, else use some other good quality unicode font that you have installed). You will see that all the diacriticals appear just fine on screen. Now make a printout of the page. When you compare the printout to what is on the screen you will see what I am talking about. What I can't understand is how StarOffice can display the character correctly on screen, but then send something else to the printer. This is driving me nuts. Does anyone have any ideas? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
