For Giuseppe Castagno and Mark Hug: First, I subscribe to this list via my account at hotpop.com. Occasionally hotpop.com goes into constipation mode, followed by diarrhea mode. At the moment it is in constipation mode. Since it's been a couple days since I originally posted and I have not received one single e-mail in my inbox (there are usually 50-60 messages a day) I went to openoffice.org and looked at your responses in the archives. I can't reply there (maybe I have to subscribe on the website or something), but I seem to be able to send to the list through my hotpop account, so we'll see if this makes it.
Regarding the font: Yes, it's Junicode, and it does seem to have all the IPA characters. I'm a graduate student of linguistics and I have been using it since early last spring. The only deficiency I have found is that the beta is missing in the bold font, although it appears in the other three. It's open source and not Summer Institute. (Google on them if you are wondering why I avoid them.) Regarding the font embedding issue: Yes, I am using OOo 2.03 on Ubuntu Dapper, amd-64. I have Adobe Reader 7.08 installed and it works just fine. However, there is definitely an issue with the font. I have ascertained the following: If I export to PDF and open the document in Adobe Reader on my Linux computer, the font appears to be embedded in all portions of the document except the form controls. If I use the controls within the original OOo document (i.e., in OOo Writer), the correct font appears. So it seems that the export to PDF function is embedding the font, but not for the controls. With the PDF file open in Adobe Reader I see in Document Properties that Reader has substituted two of its own fonts for "Helvetica." But Helvetica was not used in the Writer form document anywhere. In other words, it appears that the export to PDF utility is ignoring the font I set in the Writer document for the controls, and setting it to Helvetica. Adobe Reader, in turn, is substituting its own font for Helvetica. I also have a Windows 2000 desktop. The Junicode font is not installed on it (never got around to it, as I don't use that computer much). I transferred the PDF file to the Windows 2000 computer and opened it in Reader 7.0 there. The entire document, including the controls, came out in a strange font. Adobe Reader 7.0 on my Windows computer could not find the Junicode font and evidently did not see that it was embedded, not even for the regular text portions of the document. Yet Adobe Reader on the Linux computer does display the Junicode font, even if I uncheck "Use local fonts." And the document properties says it is embedded -- as a subset -- but nevertheless embedded. This is all very strange, but clearly there is a problem embedding fonts when exporting to PDF. Note also that the whole purpose of this document is to create editable PDFs where students can click on a control and a list of choices will drop down. Except for the font issue, that part is working fine. So, to get around what appears to be a bug in 2.03, I am going to see if I can figure out how to install a PostScript print-to-file driver on my Linux computer. This should give me a PostScript print file. I can then upload that file to Adobe and use their online PDF generator. I also have a problem with getting controls to display records in a particular sort order. But I've posted that in a different thread. Thanks for your suggestions and observations. I'll happily try anything else anyone can come up with for a solution. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
