slightly OT concerning pdf's

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:11:30 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:

>On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 20:44 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote: 
>> Ric Moore wrote:
>> > The
>> > simple pdf's that I create, using OO, never fail to load and display
>> > correctly. Since I don't have a Windows machine, I have no clue what
>> > causes this. Ric
>> 
>> Did you check them with a Windows machine? Maybe they only look right on 
>> your Linux machine but not on a Windows machine.
>
>Thanks for the reply! It's the other way around, it displays better on a
>Windows machine and apparently prints OK. But, on my machine, I was
>seeing a space in the banner text, in the words "Initiative" and
>"Publication" to look like I nitiative and P ublication. Give it a whirl
>with several different readers. My goal is that it would display
>correctly using any reader. 
>http://www.communitysuccess.org/sites/default/files/u6/newsletterjanuary2011l.pdf
>
>A Windows running friend of mine reported back that on the last page he
>got a pop up to install Eastern Asian fonts to display this page
>correctly. Just plain weird. I'm waiting to hear back from my pointy
>hair boss just what they created this page with, with no small amount of
>Fear and Loathing. <chuckles> Ric

Looking at Properties shows that all the non-standard fonts are 'not
embedded' so it's hardly surprising that that it looks pretty crap on
platforms that do not have such non-standard fonts included. Embed the
fonts or use standard fonts (helvetica, or the free "glyph for glyph" 
equivalents of the MS fonts).

-jh