Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libreoffice
Sys Info: Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 LibreOffice info: LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 At begin, I followed the instruction at http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-create-fillable-pdf-forms-with-open-office to create a fillable PDF using Libre Office writter. The follows is what I did: I created a Text Box (from the Form Controls toolbar) in the body of an article, and set the font property of the Text Box. I chose the Adobe Song Font as the font for Chinese Characters and Dejavu font for the Western Characters. The setting was now looked strange as I could only change the font name for Chinese Characters, but the rest settings for the Chinese Characters, such as the font size, were kept gray. And no mater what font I chose, they were always gray. Since the Text Boxes control worked well in Libre Office writter in both English and Chinese I thought it might be OK for PDF too. So I exported directly to the PDF format, then I got a PDF file with a fillable text box in it. After I inputed some Chinese characters as "你好" in the text box and click somewhere else on the page, the content I typed was supposed to show up with the font properties I had set above. However, the content didn't show up. Then I tried the combination of Chinese characters and English words, such as "你好hello", only the English word shown up. When I clicked the text box control in the PDF viewer(evince, in my case), the Chinese content was still in the text box, but they just refused to show up. Notice that, the Chinese Characters shows up well as ordinary content in the PDF file, so this problem is only related with the form controls. Later, I tried the Label control. I typed some Chinese as the caption of the Label control. Interestingly, the Chinese in the Label shown up in the PDF file. So I though this might related with the font embedded with the PDF file. I did the following as a test then: In the Libre Office writter, I first typed some word in the body of the article with a font A. then, I created a Text Box control using a font B and type something in the text box. After that, I created a Label Control with some words as its caption and using a font C. When all these had done, I exported the PDF file. In evince, I checked the properties of the PDF file. In the Font tab, it said: font A is embedded, font B is not embedded, font C is embedded. So, the reason of my problem was that the font used by the Text Box control was not embedded in the PDF file during the export. I noticed that there was an option related to the embedded font in the PDF option during the export, which was in Chinese and it meant "Embedded Standard Font". I didn't know what the original name of this option was. Anyway, the Chinese translation looked wired. Moreover, checking this option or not did not affect the result. After all above, I still do not know the solution to this problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jun 15 15:16:55 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=zh_CN:en LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-06 (40 days ago) ** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug apport-lpi i386 natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/797596 Title: Cannot input Chinese in the exported PDF format file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/797596/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
