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------- Additional comments from hedr...@openoffice.org Thu Jan 1 06:23:14 +0000 2009 ------- There's some funny mapping going on. However even if you fix the mapping for bullets, a document that uses other characters from Symbol won't look right. It appears to me that OO assumes the existence of the MS symbol font. If you put symbol.ttf in OO's font directory, OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/basis- link/share/fonts/truetype, things work. I did a test document with all the forms of bullet and every symbol in the MS symbol font. They all come across properly to the Mac if you have the MS symbol font installed. Because that raises possible licensing issues, I have constructed an emulation of it starting from the URW symbol font included with Ghostscript. I have converted it to TTF with the correct encapsulation and Unicode values to match the MS original. See http://techdir.rutgers.edu/symbol.ttf. It might make sense to include this with the Macintosh version of OpenOffice. Since this works properly when installed in OO's internal font directory, it won't affect the behavior of the system in general. The question is whether this would cause trouble for documents authored in OO. With this change any document using Symbol in effect uses MS Symbol. I argue that as long as OO on Windows use MS Symbol you want the Mac to do so as well, to provide for proper interchange. However I haven't done a full test of all combinations of interchange. My testing has been with Word 2008 running on the Mac, with documents originated in Word. I created two test documents. One used all forms of bullet that are standard in Word. The other used every character from the Symbol font as shown in Word. Both document came across properly in both .doc and .docx files when opened by OO. They also worked properly when OO saved them in .doc format and they were opened in Word. I haven't tested with versions of Word on Windows. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
