On 01/03/2011 02:33 AM, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: > I have a strange problem with PDFs made with Openoffice on Linux (Ubuntu > 10.10). Wherever there is an en rule (the short dash used in a span of > numbers: Unicode 2013), in the PDF it takes the shape of (or is replaced > with) a dash (Unicode 2014), though it retains the spacing of the > narrower character, so that the dash runs through the following > character. Everything is fine in the original Openoffice document: it > happens only when it’s exported as a PDF. And the result is the same > whether I export directly from within Openoffice or print to file as > Postscript and then create the PDF with ps2pdf. > > Obviously the prime suspect would seem to be the font. So I tried with > several different fonts, to discover that some do and some don’t. Then I > tried the same fonts in different applications, such as Gedit, and the > PDFs are all perfect, for all fonts. > > I wonder if anyone can offer any clues.
Could be that autocorrect is making the change? Perhaps this will be of help: <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Inserting_En_and_Em_Dashes> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
