On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 16:02 -0400, Matt Needles wrote: > Well, finally I have a definitive answer. Now I know that the OOo Font > install wizard only installs fonts for OOo's use, not system-wide use. > That's not what one would expect. Fonts are a system resource. Suppose > OOo installs some font and the user generates a PDF from an OOo document > using that font. The same user will not be able to see that font when > reading the PDF, because Acrobat Reader or whatever other reader used > on the system, won't know anything about that font, and will substitute > something else. I see this all the time on Linux, because I receive > PDFs that don't use the standard Adobe fonts, and the PDF doesn't look > like it should. > > This needs to be resolved. If a font is installed in Windows, it's > system-wide. There's no such thing as an application-specific font > installation. We need to do the same on all the other platforms OOo > supports. > > I'm no Linux guru; with a lot of experimentation, I might eventually get > this by trial and error, but it would be VERY helpful if OOo would do it > right for me. > > Matt
If the fonts you use, that are not in the built-in set, for to generating a PDF are *NOT* being embedded then something is wrong. Please file an issue. > ---- > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > >On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 23:04 -0400, Matt Needles wrote: > > > > > >>No, Gary, it has to do with OOo, because I want to know if the wizard > >>installs in such a way that the fonts are not just available to OOo. > >> > >> > > > >Huh? I think the answer is no File > Wizard > Install fonts from the > >web ... does not install fonts on a system level. Please have a look at > >the macros in the wizard and you will see that. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
