At least with PgS 5.0.5.8 on Linux I have encountered a problem with font embedding saving to PDF. Depending on just what settings were used various incorrect characters are displayed when viewing the PDF with okular. The characters at issue are multiply, divide and minus. The closest I got was with no embedding -- the minus characters were not displayed at all but the others displayed correctly.

I moved the document to OS X and used PgS 5.0.5.9. The PDF created from that displays correctly in okular so it would appear to be a fault in PgS 5.0.5.8 and/or platform sensitive.

For what it's worth the font in question is Times New Roman.

Tim Doty
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Can you do a save to postscript file on the linux machine? then in okular use the import postscript as pdf. if the file imports ok, then the problem is in pgs's PDF generation, else i would be suspect of that font file or pgs itself.

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:39:03 -0500, Tim Doty <thoromyr@mac.com> wrote:

>
> At least with PgS 5.0.5.8 on Linux I have encountered a problem with font embedding saving to PDF. Depending on just what settings were used various >incorrect characters are displayed when viewing the PDF with okular. The characters at issue are multiply, divide and minus. The closest I got was with no >embedding -- the minus characters were not displayed at all but the others displayed correctly.
>
> I moved the document to OS X and used PgS 5.0.5.9. The PDF created from that displays correctly in okular so it would appear to be a fault in PgS 5.0.5.8 >and/or platform sensitive.
>
> For what it's worth the font in question is Times New Roman.
>
> Tim Doty
>

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good point. I'll give that a shot.

On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:57 AM, admfubar@gmail.com wrote:

> Can you do a save to postscript file on the linux machine? then in okular use the import postscript as pdf. if the file imports ok, then the problem is in pgs's PDF generation, else i would be suspect of that font file or pgs itself.
>
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:39:03 -0500, Tim Doty thoromyr@mac.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > At least with PgS 5.0.5.8 on Linux I have encountered a problem with font embedding saving to PDF. Depending on just what settings were used various >incorrect characters are displayed when viewing the PDF with okular. The characters at issue are multiply, divide and minus. The closest I got was with no >embedding -- the minus characters were not displayed at all but the others displayed correctly.
> >
> > I moved the document to OS X and used PgS 5.0.5.9. The PDF created from that displays correctly in okular so it would appear to be a fault in PgS 5.0.5.8 >and/or platform sensitive.
> >
> > For what it's worth the font in question is Times New Roman.
> >
> > Tim Doty
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

For what it is worth, the PDF-outcome of the Windows version (5.0.5.
is correct.

Theo

Op 5-3-2013 18:39, Tim Doty schreef:
> At least with PgS 5.0.5.8 on Linux I have encountered a problem with font embedding saving to PDF. Depending on just what settings were used various incorrect characters are displayed when viewing the PDF with okular. The characters at issue are multiply, divide and minus. The closest I got was with no embedding -- the minus characters were not displayed at all but the others displayed correctly.
>
> I moved the document to OS X and used PgS 5.0.5.9. The PDF created from that displays correctly in okular so it would appear to be a fault in PgS 5.0.5.8 and/or platform sensitive.
>
> For what it's worth the font in question is Times New Roman.
>
> Tim Doty

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