Harris, Brent wrote:
I am exporting a Write (.odt) file as a PDF with form fields. I would
like to be able to specify various fonts and font effects in the form
field. All I appear able to set is the font color, background color,
and size. Am I missing the option that allows me to embed the font and
other effects, or will this feature be in a future release?
You didn't say which OS you're running OOo on.
On Linux I had the same or similar problem with barcode fonts in form
fields when using the PDF export feature of OOo. So I tried printing to
PDF instead (on Linux, OOo has a preconfigured printer that uses
GhostScript to convert PostScript to PDF), and this works fine. So I'd
say it's a bug in the current OOo PDF export feature.
If this problem is occurring in Windows OOo too then you may be able to
do something similar to the Linux solution as follows:
Windows OOo only appears to use your Windows configured printers so
there may be no "PDF printer" unless you have Adobe Distiller already.
However, you can download GhostScript for Windows and you should be able
to setup a PostScript printer (any printer model that supports
PostScript will probably do) and configure it to send the output to a
file by default (or possibly directly to GhostScript if that's
supported). Then use GhostScript to convert the file to PDF.
I appear to be able to embed fonts outside a form field just fine.
Haven't tried that IIRC so that's good to know.
Ross
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