John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:57:04 -0500
"John & Mary Linge" <jomali3...@gmail.com> dijo:
It works fine for me in OOo 3.0.1. I just tried it.
The behavior you describe is commonly observed in many applications when you
send someone a document in which you use a font not available on the other
person's computer. The other person's system substitutes an available
default font. On Windows machines, that would usually be Arial if the
original font was a non-serif font. Could that be your problem?
John
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnjas...@gmail.com>wrote:
However, one thing I cannot do is set a control in an editable PDF to a
specific font. It appears to allow me to set a font for the control -
and it does keep that font for the control as long as it is an .odt
document - but the export to PDF converts the font to Arial.
<snip>
font you want for a control? That "term" is not something I remember.
I may know what you mean, but not for sure.
<snip>
I understand that if you created an editable PDF in Adobe Acrobat you
*can* set any font you want for a control, and the font is embedded in
the PDF. I haven't tested this myself, however, as I do not have
Acrobat.
<snip>
try the trial pack and see. I do once and a while. That is why
I know how big they are now. Got out of many a mess with trials
of expensive software.
<snip>
I don't know enough about PDF to know why the differences among OOo,
Scribus, and Acrobat.
<snip>
Acrobat Professional 6 and 7 were OK, but 6 worked better for my
XP/pro laptop than version 7. Then came version 8. I wanted a little
less than 1 gig of hard drive space for XP's setup. They bloated it
badly. Of course version 6 or 7 world not work on my Vista laptop.
Kept having to re-install it. Plus as a print-to-pdf system, it was
very slow. With doPDF's print-to-pdf system, it installed easily on
Vista and "prints" the file much faster than Acrobat.
I do not create many editable/form/etc. PDF files, so I do not know
that part. doPDF will do it, IF you buy their upgrade, which is not
much compared to the cost of Actobat, pennies to the dollar verses the
cost of Acrobat.
There are many under-$100 products out there that will create/edit/print
PDF forms and files.
But, if you can get free products like Scribus and OpenOffice.org to
do the work for you, then we all want to go for it. I do. I still have
to look into Scribus for newsletters with newspaper like articles
jumping from one page to a back page, with complex text blocks and
images. I want to learn how to do that stuff with OOo first.
I did look into a earlier email with the export to PDF using PDF/A1
for font embedded, but I have my computers setup with the same fonts.
I will need to install a(1-4) new-very-special-looking font.
That way the other computer will not have it and we will test it out
well. My last major newsletter had special "fonts/glyphs" in many,
many locations, including the page numbers. I dropped that PageMaker
project last year, due to health troubles. I may take one of those
pages and use OOo to set it up and export it for comparisons.
Well enough of my long reply. Good luck.
Tim L.
retired and tired of MS and Adobe.
They the Free software Reign Supreme (soon)
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