---- Original message ---- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:33:06 +0000 From: Séamas Ó Brógáin <[email protected]> Subject: [users] Strange problem with PDFs To: [email protected]
>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. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
