#1584 closed bug (fixed)
Fonts not encoded by PDF printer driver
| Reported by: | kev | Owned by: | laplace |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Printing | Version: | R1/pre-alpha1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | x86 |
Description
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
Attachments (7)
Change History (15)
by , 16 years ago
| Attachment: | Sgreek.ttf added |
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by , 16 years ago
Screenshot of Greek as it appears in GP (same as in StyledEdit)
by , 16 years ago
| Attachment: | embed2.png added |
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Screenshot showing fonts actually embedded according to BePDF
by , 16 years ago
| Attachment: | wysinwyg.png added |
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PNG of other file so you can view it in Firefox (sorry)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
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
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
| Status: | new → assigned |
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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.
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
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. ;) )
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
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.
comment:5 by , 16 years ago
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
comment:6 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | invalid |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
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.
comment:7 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
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.
comment:8 by , 16 years ago
Oh...oops, I didn't know this technology even existed! Sorry about that. Thanks for updating the error messages.
Sgreek TrueType font