Re: [Pdfedit-support] Font problem

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 06:22:39PM +0200, Drazen Zubovic wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> 
> There seems to be something that precludes from showing/seeing foreign language 
> fonts (like Croatian) in PDFEdit created document. That something could be my 
> lack of understanding about how to configure/use system, or something else, but 
> the bottom-line is that I cannot create desired document.

Does this mean that you event can't see text with special characters in
such documents (or it relates only to editing)?

> My system is Ubuntu 
> 8.04 64 bit and I use UTF-8 system font, which BTW fully meets all my 
> expectations, to create documents from OpenOffice/Thunderbird/Bluefish/Gedit in 
> several different languages, including using special Greek symbols, etc. 
> However, this is not working for me from PDFEdit, even though I changed 
> Tools/Options/Character encoding to utf8, or (anything else). Importing system 
> font did also not cause any significant difference.
> An observation I had is that the font is showing properly only in a text field 
> in Dynamic menu and in the text field in Parameter view - but it is not showing 
> in WYSIWYG window of the main document. By "showing properly" I refer only to 
> foreign national language specific symbols and letters. Any other ANSI character 
> is shown exactly as expected. 

This is known issue and it is climbing to the top of the priority
because more and more users hits it. I hope that we will be able to
provide a fix ASAP.

> Another thing is that if you export document from OpenOffice, than it
> is shown properly with PDFEdit, yet it cannot be modified in
> reasonable manner, as the font is invisible in Dynamic menu and
> Parameter view.

Yes, OO generates really hard to manipulate pdfs. It changes charmaps and so
on. 

> Thanks in advance!
> Drazen

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Michal Hocko