Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 14836
Font "Nimbus Sans L" does not print
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:54:41 UTC
My presentation uses Nimbus Sans L as its standand font. When printing the presentation, all characters are replaced by some serif font. This happens when printing to a Postscript and when exporting PDF. In OOo 1.0.3.1 everything was fine. I did not check whether other screen fonts are replaced inappropriately, too.
Reassigned to Christian.
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If you export to PDF you can run pdffonts to get a list of the fonts actually used by the file. I'm using mdk 9.0, which has the .afm files in /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1. I created a subdirectory and put links to the .afm files there so I could add the fonts using spadmin. $ xlsfonts | grep 'urw-nimbus sans l-.*-iso8859-1$' -urw-nimbus sans l-bold-o-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -urw-nimbus sans l-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -urw-nimbus sans l-bold-r-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -urw-nimbus sans l-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -urw-nimbus sans l-medium-o-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -urw-nimbus sans l-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -urw-nimbus sans l-medium-r-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -urw-nimbus sans l-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Here is what I get from a PDF file created by exporting a drawing that uses only Nimbus Sans L (regular and italic). As you can see, the Impact font has been substituted for both variants. $ pdffonts nimbussansl.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ----------------- ------------ --- --- --- --------- BAAAAA+Impact TrueType yes yes yes 9 0 In other documents I have seen different substitutions.
Hm, I don't have pdffonts installed and I really don't want to fiddle around with it. All I expect is that OOo 1.1 behaves like 1.0.3. With the latter I can print to a Postscript file and convert it to PDF using Ghostscript (ps2pdf). I could live with OOo being unable to export PDF directly but PS printing should be as before. I have OOo 1.0.3 installed on the same machine as 1.1beta2, which works flawlessly, so the problem is not a font setup issue external to OOo.
I'll have a look
"Nimbus Sans L" is a Type1 fonts that was not found because the .afm file next to it was not taken into account. This was fixed in issue 12936. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 12936 ***
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I'm aware of issue 12936. I have an afm subdirectory with symbolic links to the actual afm files. This is needed in order to see the fonts when you install them with spadmin. Did you install the URW fonts with spadmin?
I did not install them at all, since they are available under Suse Linux 8.2 (and earlier releases) right out of the box. If you need more information, please tell me what exactly I should look up for you!
FYI: i rechecked with a current version and "Nimbus Sans L" works flawlessly in PDF.
Thanks! I'll try the next beta when it is released.