First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The fonts used in Windows were these: 1) WP Phonetic 2) SymbolProp B, also called WP Multinational Roman. 3) Times New Roman. 4) WP Greek Helve and 5) Century Gothic. I have Debian Knoppix, the latest version. I think the file in Debian that converted the Windows file is in MS word. I have told a friend who knows more than me about it and we are going to try if "<snip>Sounds like you need to convert from one font to another. so /schwa/ ->chr(some-number), a->a,A->, etc. sounds like a task for sed or perl ormaybe tr?-kev" works. Secondly thanks to Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have the Acrobat Reader program; In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it cost 600 euros. Thirdly thanks to Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The pdf would not be the solution anyway because I need to print some pages de of the file in Debian.Johann Spies is right there in his other later e-mail. I have downloaded the tippa fonts but in Debian Knoppix, the latest version, they appear as LatEx, not as Tippa, although I think that they are the same. The funny thing is that a few weeks before I installed another version of Debian Knoppix, an earlier one, which I uninstalled later because it gave me problems. That previous version converted some of these phonetic symbols: the symbol for th in three and the symbol for u in cut but this later version doesn't. How strange! All these phonetic symbols appear when I use them in a new Debian Knoppix file. The problem is that that old file comes from Windows 2000. However I am sure that if Debian Knoppix has these symbols there should be a way to convert the Windows file into the Linux file properly. Finally thanks to Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED] who siad: If you can make a new document containing the symbols (YES, I CAN), then the problem most probably is that your imported document is using another font that is not installed on your system (YOU ARE PROBABLY RIGHT). There are two ways to fix that.First to try is to select all the text in your document and change it to the font that you just proved works. That's an easy fix if it works (IT DOESN'T WORK).If that doesn't work, you need to import the Windows font that your document is using (I HAVE THE WINDOWS FONTS ON MY COMPUTER IN A DIFFERENT DISK). That's more difficult, but it's been discussed before, so search the archive as a first step (try truetype as a keyword). I am no programmer but I hope that with all your help we will be able to sort it out. I will keek informed about the results and how everything progresses. Thanks again to all of you because I feel that I am not alone.
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