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The Joke Breaker

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Registered: 2016-04-30

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libreoffice-fresh-5.1.2-1 cannot print scandinavian letters [FIXED]

Whenever I try to print to PDF or a printer LibreOffice won't print any scandinavian letters.

It does work with other non-english letters such as cyrillic.

I have tried to install libreoffice-fresh-da but it did not fix the problem.

My PDF viewer is qpdfviewer in case it has any effect on this.

Example:
Before print:
Øl æbler ål müsli Överkalix Färila Это тест
After print:
  l     bler  l  m  sli  verkalix  F rila  Это тест
Copying text from a printed PDF that shows the same as "After print":
Øl æbler ål müsli Överkalix Färila Это тест

Does anybody know how to fix this?

Last edited by The Joke Breaker (2016-05-12 17:20:54)

nTia89

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Re: libreoffice-fresh-5.1.2-1 cannot print scandinavian letters [FIXED]

I'm on latest libreoffice from extra repo, libreoffice-fresh-5.1.2-1 and I can't reproduce your problem
my locale is english.UTF-8

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The Joke Breaker

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Registered: 2016-04-30

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Re: libreoffice-fresh-5.1.2-1 cannot print scandinavian letters [FIXED]

Is it possible to get libreoffice to log it's print function?

erikwallin

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Registered: 2016-05-09

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Re: libreoffice-fresh-5.1.2-1 cannot print scandinavian letters [FIXED]

I had a similar issue, with Libreoffice (e.g. fresh 5.1.2.2) excluding all Swedish special characters on pdf export. I solved it by installing a font package.

The same file would work on Ubuntu, with Libreoffice 4.2. I compared the output of pdffonts from two pdf:s, generated from the same file but on the two different systems. The one where the special characters were printed OK gave output
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
BAAAAA+LiberationSans-Bold           TrueType          WinAnsi          yes yes yes     22  0
CAAAAA+LiberationSerif               TrueType          WinAnsi          yes yes yes     12  0
DAAAAA+LiberationSerif-Bold          TrueType          WinAnsi          yes yes yes     17  0

and the one where the special characters were not included gave the output
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
NimbusRomNo9L-Med                    Type 1            Builtin          yes no  yes     25  0
NimbusRomNo9L-Reg                    Type 1            Builtin          yes no  yes     12  0
NimbusRomNo9L-Reg                    Type 1            Custom           yes no  yes     15  0
NimbusSanL-Bol                       Type 1            Builtin          yes no  yes     20  0

After installing the package ttf-liberation pdf export of Swedish characters worked!

The Joke Breaker

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Registered: 2016-04-30

Posts: 3

Re: libreoffice-fresh-5.1.2-1 cannot print scandinavian letters [FIXED]

I had a similar issue, with Libreoffice (e.g. fresh 5.1.2.2) excluding all Swedish special characters on pdf export. I solved it by installing a font package.

The same file would work on Ubuntu, with Libreoffice 4.2. I compared the output of pdffonts from two pdf:s, generated from the same file but on the two different systems. The one where the special characters were printed OK gave output
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
BAAAAA+LiberationSans-Bold           TrueType          WinAnsi          yes yes yes     22  0
CAAAAA+LiberationSerif               TrueType          WinAnsi          yes yes yes     12  0
DAAAAA+LiberationSerif-Bold          TrueType          WinAnsi          yes yes yes     17  0

and the one where the special characters were not included gave the output
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
NimbusRomNo9L-Med                    Type 1            Builtin          yes no  yes     25  0
NimbusRomNo9L-Reg                    Type 1            Builtin          yes no  yes     12  0
NimbusRomNo9L-Reg                    Type 1            Custom           yes no  yes     15  0
NimbusSanL-Bol                       Type 1            Builtin          yes no  yes     20  0

After installing the package ttf-liberation pdf export of Swedish characters worked!

Thanks this solved the issue for me!