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JJWMac
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 Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:38 pm Post subject: Bug Report: Exporting to PDF with Symbol Font |
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I have an Impress document that uses Symbol fonts in certain places. I exported the document to PDF and noticed, the Symbol font translations were off (Delta -> Pi for example).
I narrowed the problem down to a case where a single letter and the following space are BOTH defined to use Symbol font, followed by a character defined as Arial (non-Symbol) font. When the space is redefined as Arial font, the Symbol fonts are properly translated.
I am attached a ZIP archive with six files, three .odp and their corresponding .pdf creations, each having only one slide with minor changes. Two are working examples and one is a failed example. In the one failed example, the spaces between the two locations of "(Symbol S) space S" are both Symbol font. Otherwise, the space is Arial font in the two examples that work.
I am using NeoOffice 3.0.1 under MacOS X 10.6.1.
Thanks for the ongoing development of NeoOffice as a free alternative to MSOffice and as a Mac-centric alternative to OOffice - I enjoy being able to use it!
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pluby
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Thank you for the sample files. I will try to reproduce this on my Mac OS X 10.6.1 today and I will post again when I have more news.
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pluby
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I forgot to mention that I have a potential workaround that you can try if you need to export to PDF while I am investigating this bug. Does the following workaround work for you?:
1. Select File :: Print or press the Print toolbar icon
2. In the native print dialog that appears, press the PDF button and select the Save As option from the menu that appears
The file size of the exported PDF may be a bit larger that Export as PDF feature in NeoOffice, but since the above steps use Mac OS X's native printing functions to save the PDF, you may be able to avoid this bug.
Edit by pluby: Corrected print dialog button labels to match Snow Leopard buttons
Hope that helps,
Patrick
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narf
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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I was able to reproduce this on Mac OS X 10.6.1 but not with Mac OS X 10.4.11.
FYI: I have opened bug 3570 to track this.
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JJWMac
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| pluby wrote: | .... Does the following workaround work for you?:
1. Select File :: Print or press the Print toolbar icon
2. In the native print dialog that appears, press the PDF button and select the Save As option from the menu that appear.
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This works. I just loose the colors in the file.
Also, I have found, the translation error seems to occur whenever ANY "space" character anywhere in the Impress document is defined as Symbol font. All Symbols throughout the entire presentation are subsequently mis-translated.
To avoid the problem or fix it should it arise --> Make sure no spaces in the document are defined as Symbol font
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