Fonts not encoded by PDF printer driver

[kev]

I've been using the font SGreek to write in the Greek alphabet. Unfortunately, printing a document with it from Gobe Productive or from StyledEdit comes out with the SGreek text in a normal Latin font rather than how it looks in the respective programs. The printer driver options have it set to encode the SGreek font, but it doesn't seem to do that.

Also I've ruled out it being an issue with BePDF because I tried looking at these PDFs under Windows and they look the same.

Kev

[kev]

Sgreek TrueType font

[kev]

PDF from Gobe Productive 2.0.1

[kev]

Screenshot of Greek as it appears in GP (same as in StyledEdit)

[kev]

Screenshot showing font embedding

[kev]

Screenshot showing fonts actually embedded according to BePDF

[kev]

StyledEdit-produced PDF

[kev]

PNG of other file so you can view it in Firefox (sorry)

[kev]

Also FWIW I've tried varying the compression (high-low) and compatibility settings (1.3, 1.4) and it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Kev

[laplace]

Thank you for the bug report. From you observation it seems the changed settings are ignored. I will look into that when I have time.

[kev]

Thanks, that'd be great. BTW, the version I'm using is the 2.0 Beta 1 on BeBits. If I'm able to use one from the build factory under R5.0.3 let me know, I'll try it (last time I did this, with networking, I broke my system a few times. ;) )

[laplace]

I have tested the version from SVN repository under Haiku and it seems to work fine. PDF files created from a sample text in StyledEdit using different setting have different file sizes, that's an indication that the settings are respected.

Therefore I have closed this bug as "invalid".

Maybe I have the time to build a new version for BeOS, but I cannot promise it.

[kev]

Just to be clear, the bug I was having was with font embedding, I was just noting that the compression and compatibility settings didn't seem to make a difference. So, with the SVN version you can correctly output text in the SGreek font?

Thanks, Kev

[laplace]

Oh, I had not tested it with that particular font. I have done this now and of course embedding does not work :-( Not sure yet what's the reason for that.

I have opened this ticket again.

[laplace]

This font cannot be embedded due to licensing restrictions in the font file.

Now a more detailed error message is written to the status window. This closes the ticket.

[kev]

Oh...oops, I didn't know this technology even existed! Sorry about that. Thanks for updating the error messages.