I have a macro that saves/exports the pdf's useing the following OpenOffice function: oDoc.storeToURL( cDestURL, oExportOptions )
Maybe the option to tell the PDF to use the real fonts is available inside the Export Options given to the function storeToURL(), i'll do a little research on that. Printing and diverting is not really a suitable solution because i have to convert 280 doc Documents :) greez Jonas Ulrich > I could be mistaken, but since at one time they told me I was in the > top 5 PDF gurus globally, I'll take a shot. Not anymore, moved on. ;) ) > > PDF's use certain fonts to save file size, they are assumed universal > by Adobe on various platforms. This usually means that fonts that can > be swapped are swapped to save file size by using the known fonts in > the system. Now you normally can tell the PDF to use the real fonts > or tell it to generate print level document which should set it to > use the specific fonts, varies with apps. For the web, at least > default usually won't. > > Have you tried printing the documents and diverting it to PDF? I'm > assuming you are not on OS X, as it uses PDF throughout and is very > flexible. > > Perhaps if you can give me some more detailed info, steps, I could > try direct you this way or that way. > > Jason > > > > On 30-Aug-05, at 11:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi List, >> first post to the list for me. >> I'm trying to batch-export .doc Documents to .pdf Documents. >> This step is working like a charm right now, the problem occurs >> between >> opening and saveing the document. >> In between those two the font is changed from Arial to a .pfm font >> (MetaPlusBook). When the Document is exported the resulting .pdf File >> still uses some Arial fonts and a Helvetica (to be precisely: Arial- >> BoldMT >> (TrueType), Arial-ItalicMT (TrueType), Helvetica (Type 1) and >> LinotypeErgo-Regular (TrueType)) but not the desired font. >> The very same problem occurs when manually writing a document using >> the >> MetaPlusBook pfm Font and exporting it to pdf. >> >> I don't know what to do anymore, because i searched for every >> imaginable >> combination of keywords and didn't find a solution. >> I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.4. >> >> greets Jonas Ulrich >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
