Issue 99550

Summary: PDF Export on special character produces wrong characters
Product: gsl Reporter: arifsaha <arifsaha>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: ACCEPTED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 3.0.1   
Target Milestone: OOo 3.x   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: Mac OS X, all   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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The ODT files contains several special characters in Helvetica
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PDF Export from OOo 3.0.1 shows wrong characters, or even change of formatting
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PDF Export from OOo 2.4.1 shows correct characters none

Description arifsaha 2009-02-23 18:32:58 UTC 
When I use PDF exports of documents with some special characters on certain
fonts, some of those special characters show up as wrong characters (even
control characters) in the resulting PDF. This is contrasted with older OOo
(2.4.1) which did the export perfectly.

Sample documents will be submitted.
Comment 1 arifsaha 2009-02-23 18:34:19 UTC 
Created attachment 60400 [details]
The ODT files contains several special characters in Helvetica
Comment 2 arifsaha 2009-02-23 18:36:05 UTC 
Created attachment 60401 [details]
PDF Export from OOo 3.0.1 shows wrong characters, or even change of formatting
Comment 3 arifsaha 2009-02-23 18:36:47 UTC 
Created attachment 60402 [details]
PDF Export from OOo 2.4.1 shows correct characters
Comment 4 arifsaha 2009-02-23 18:44:29 UTC 
The issue does not show up for certain font / typeface, e.g. OpenSymbol.

The issue does not show up when exporting as PDF/A-1, but then we lost some
features and got much larger files.

This issue may be related to issue #95459 and issue #93852.
Comment 5 philipp.lohmann 2009-02-27 13:04:26 UTC 
Confirm, however as a workaround you might format the symbols with a font that
actually can display them.
Comment 6 philipp.lohmann 2009-02-27 13:06:36 UTC 
pl->hdu: earlier a glyph replacement from Helvetica to OpenSymbol seems to have
taken place; this is not the case now. Could you please have a look ?
Comment 7 hdu@apache.org 2009-02-27 15:23:00 UTC 
reminder: check glyphfallback from PDF-builtin font to ATS-font
supporting PDF-builtin fonts to save a couple of bytes during PDF-export is not worth the trouble...
Comment 8 hdu@apache.org 2009-03-03 09:11:11 UTC 
Adjusting the priority:
Selecting symbols from a symbol font and then assigning another random font for them is never be a 
valid use case. If any other font on the system is also supporting the codepoints requested by the symbol 
text there is no way to reliably recover from this user error. The recovery actions going on still have some 
merit though and should work for PDF-export as well.
Comment 9 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:33:16 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".