Hi, I’m using a compiled version of LibreOffice 6.2.1.2 to convert .docx files into PDFs. The problem I’m facing is that PDF files generated from the same document on different machines show different embedded fonts. The specific file contains only “Times New Roman” text, but the PDF generated on one machine has fonts from the Liberation font family embedded, while the one generated on the other machine has DejaVu fonts embedded. The original file looks identical when opened on the two machines, but the converted PDFs look different. I tried playing with the “EmbedFonts” and “Export Standard Fonts” flags without success. Am I missing something?
It’s just a hint, no question: How to open files from MS-Office 2007 or 2010 (.DOCX, .XLSX,…)? - last heading.
- How was the font “Times New Roman” set, via hard formatting or with style sheet?
- If you used a style sheet, all the text was previously marked and removed using the
Format>Delete Direct Formattingmenu bevor?
I finally solved my own issues: basically the problem was related to the fact that fonts were not part of the deploy, so LibreOffice ended up silently replacing the ones referenced in the document with whichever font was installed in the system. The solution was to embed the fonts coming with the LibreOffice installation in the deploy package and to replace the HOME environment variable so to point to them. Though, it’s still a mystery to me why the original document looked the same on the two machines while the output PDFs were different. My guess is that LibreOffice uses different criteria to pick up the font in the two cases.