[Tfug] OpenOffice file exports to PDF

Nathan England nathan at paysonlinux.org
Mon Sep 14 21:07:34 MST 2009


Jim March wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Charles R. Kiss
> <charles at kissbrothers.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello Tucson,
>>
>> Has anyone had any problems exporting .odt files to .pdf?  Seems this has
>> been happening to me, lately:
>>
>> The .odt file looks good but the .pdf file contains within every hundred
>> characters or so, an undesired font or non-font (like a box) in place of the
>> desired font.
>>
>> For example, a superscript that appears as the numeral '2' in the .odt file,
>> appears the special character 'gamma' in the .pdf file.  Or the numeral '0'
>> may appear as a box, etc.
>>
>> Any ideas??
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Charles
>>     
>
> Huh.  That's odd.
>
> Which version of OO?  I haven't seen that, and I've exported some
> pretty funky stuff to PDF.
>
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Same here. I would have to say possible you have a font installed being 
used for the superscript character that is not embedding in OO? Maybe it 
is not a post script font? Can you change the fonts and try again?

Is it linux or windows?

nathan




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