Hi John,
a few requests on the rest of the lines.
John Jason Jordan wrote:
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text box). In the process I created a database to link to the combo
boxes. It is now about 8 pm and I have most of it figured out. However,
there is one problem that I cannot overcome, and it is a show stopper.
The forms are for use in linguistics courses, therefore I must be able
to use a Unicode font that has all the IPA characters in it. I have
several such fonts installed on my Ubuntu Dapper amd-64 computer, and
they work just fine. (The one I decided to use for this form is
Junicode, a serif font.) I need the font to be embedded for the
controls that I placed on the form. I have done so in the Properties
window for each control. When I switch from design view to regular view
the font appears correctly in all parts of the OOo document -- the
regular text portions and the controls. But after exporting to PDF, the
font remains in the text portions of the form, but in each control the
font is some kind of sans serif. Whatever it is, it lacks the IPA
characters that students need.
Does IPA mean International Phonetic Alphabet?
To reiterate for clarity, the form works perfectly as an OOo document
-- the font appears in all places correctly. If I were sending the OOo
form to students there would be no problem at all (after they install
the Junicode font on their computers, of course). But when exporting to
PDF the font is embedded for the text parts of the form (i.e., the
instructions), but is lost in the form controls. The export to PDF
function is substituting some sans serif font for Junicode in the
controls. When I open the PDF in Adobe Reader 7.0 the font in the
controls does not display the IPA characters.
Are those IPA fonts freely available?
I attempted to circumvent the problem by using the CUPS-PDF print
utility. For those not familiar with it, CUPS-PDF installs a "printer
driver" that is really a utility that converts the print stream to a
PDF file. You just print to the CUPS-PDF "printer" and it makes the PDF
file for you. CUPS-PDF made the PDF file just fine, but it is not at
all editable in any portion of the resulting PDF document.
I know I could solve the problem if I give hundreds of dollars to Adobe
for Acrobat, plus figure out a way to install it under Linux. But I
can't afford it, and I think there might be a way to get OOo to do the
job if I could figure out what I'm doing wrong. The problem is in the
export to PDF function, not in the creation of the form.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Can you provide more info?
The operating system from your message lines seems Linux; what OOo
version are you using?
It seems to me that for some reason the IPA fonts are not embedded in
the PDF by OOo.
There are some issue already filed about this topic, and I'd like to
know if this is one of those cases or a new one, hence a new issue need
to be filed.
Please see my comments/questions above.
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Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno
Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
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