John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:38:23 -0500 > Web Kracked <webmas...@krackedpress.com> dijo: > >> > 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. > >> try the trial pack and see. > > No trial pack for me. Both my computers run Ubuntu. I do have Windows > 2000 (the last Windows I used before going to Linux) as a guest OS, but > current versions of Acrobat won't install. Windows 2000 does not have > the DRM stuff to enable Adobe's activation requirements, so they made > Acrobat 7 and later require XP or Vista. I'm not going there. :) > > My only option is to go to a university computer lab. The graduate > labs have Acrobat installed under the university's site license. But > that is an extra trip across town and a large expenditure of time. > Perhaps during spring break, but not with the end of the term looming. > I'm not very smart so I have to work extra hard. > >> 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. > > Someone else suggested PDF/A1 so I tried it. Adobe Acrobat 8.1/Linux > would not open the resulting PDF.
That would have been me :-) It doesn't surprise me that you couldn't open the resulting PDF, either. If you had actually followed through and perhaps clicked on any of the links I had provided you may have gained a clue as to why that would not be possible. I am also a firm believer in that once a subject changes from the subject title, one should change it to reflect that change, hence another change of subject title :-( For me, this has been a little learning curve. i.e. I don't as-a-rule set forms and save them to PDF. But looking at setting forms and saving to PDF I would say that you have struck a bug in OOo (I'm using version 3.01 for PPC) That is: *you said* in an earlier post... > >> Apparently I did not make something clear. In your OP, you did not. >> Whatever font I specify for the document *is* embedded in the PDF. The >> correct font appears on everyone's computer. All except for a font in a >> control in a form, that is. Those default to Arial. And if I set it to >> Times (one of the seven mentioned by someone else), it still defaults >> to Arial for the control. Again, note that it is just the control >> (combo box, text box, etc.) that comes out as Arial. [...] Now for me, on a PPC Mac using OOo 3.0.1, if I set a sans serif font in a form - e.g. "Courier", on saving the file to PDF, the font defaults to "Helvetica" (PPC Mac equivalent to "Arial"). But if I set the font to a serif "Times New Roman", not a problem, the resulting PDF display Times New Roman, as the font to use in the form. >> As for bug reports, it is not a bug. What I need to file is a feature >> request, and I already did so over a year ago. Nothing has come of it, >> however. Perhaps it is hard to implement. I think its a bug and not a feature. >> At any rate, that is why I asked in this thread, The thread's *subject* had *no* bearing on _your__ *problem* You should *change* the thread subject, when that is the case. You might attract real *help* in that way. >> because if someone is going to make improvements >> to PDF export, letting me set any font that I want for a control is a >> feature I would dearly love to have. Please read my last paragraph again. -- Mike Dawe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
