Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 99550
PDF Export on special character produces wrong characters
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:33:16 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.
Created attachment 60400 [details] The ODT files contains several special characters in Helvetica
Created attachment 60401 [details] PDF Export from OOo 3.0.1 shows wrong characters, or even change of formatting
Created attachment 60402 [details] PDF Export from OOo 2.4.1 shows correct characters
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.
Confirm, however as a workaround you might format the symbols with a font that actually can display them.
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 ?
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...
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.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".