---- Original message ---- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:43:36 -0500 From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [users] Strange problem with PDFs To: [email protected]
>On 01/03/11 05:33, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: >> 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. >Try adding CUPs PDF as your printer of PDF files. >That is what I use for Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. > >I do not know is it is the internal export system to PDF or not. If you >print the PDF file using the CUPs PDF printing system and you do not >get that error, then it is the exporting system internal to OOo. > >I would go to the Synaptic Package Manager and do a search for cups pdf. >That will get you started. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
