Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice

Salam,

I think i did not explain well my problem, here is it :

1- I create my arabic pdf forms with LibreOffice-Writer by exporting it to
PDF, my PDF is correct (using whatever pdf viewer Evince, foxit, adobe,
x-pdf viewer,...)
2- I want to fill out my PDF form with LiBO-Draw-3.3 + PDF Import
Extension-1.0.4
3- Once the pdf opened with Draw I see that all characters and all words are
coreectly displayed except for the لا لأ لإ لآ characters.

I create/edit pdf since 1997 and I can't count how many softwares I used to
> do so. I think LO/OOo is (are) the best tool to create a pdf. As I'm french
> speaking, I never had a problem with diacritic sign (accents, cedilla...)
> in
> a pdf.



> Like someone else explains, it must be an embedded font problem. Be aware
> that a font must be embedded to be presented corectly unless there is a
> substitution (Helvetica is a substitution for Arial, very close - the same
> is true for Times and TimesNew Roman or Courier and CourierNew). A font can
> only be embedded (or partially embedded) if it has the right to do so.
> Maybe
> your Arabic font can't be embedded in the pdf document.



I'm not facing problems while creating PDF, I'm just facing problems with
Reopening a PDF with LibO-Draw + PDF Import extension and not with all
arabic characters, but only with لا لأ لإ لآ characters that belong to the
Unicode Block "Arabic Presentation Forms-B" and to be more precise with the
characters that ranges from FEF5 to FEFC.

PDF is an open standard since 1st of july 2008, free (as in libre) readers
> and editors exist for any OS, so you can use the pdf format while promoting
> FOSS ;-)
>
> Now back to your main problem, here is what I would do:
>
> 1. Open your regular document (or any arabic document you created) and
> check
> the embedded font in the document properties, the arabic font must be
> completly or partially embedded, it MUST appear in the font list;
>
> 2. If you can't write in the pdf using pdf import because the results are
> not good, try this longer way:
>   - open the document in a pdf reader, print it in a Postscript file (*.ps)
>   - open LO Draw and insert the ps document as an image; if you are using
> Linux you will see a low resolution of the page, good enough so that you
> will be able to see where you can add your new text (in Windows it is not
> possible, the missing Postscript viewer is the cause and the inserted ps
> image only shows a blank rectangle)
>   - add a layer (and lock the layer containing the pdf page) to write your
> text without disturbing your original page
>   - when finished, PRINT the page (allowing every layer to be printed) in a
> new Postscript file (like new.ps)
>   - use ps2pdf to convert the file to pdf: ps2pdf new.ps
>
> You may loose links because the ps file is not aware of the pdf syntax, but
> the pdf file should look good if the fonts used can be embedded or
> substituted. Even if the ps "image" has a low resolution, the Postscript
> informations are still there and the pdf created should look good. In
> windows, you can write over the blank rectangle if you know the exact place
> where to write, the ps file is there, it is only not showed.
>
> Finally, I use this long technique on some complicated pages and I replace
> the newly working pages in any pdf using pdftk (a CLI tool), pdf-mod or
> pdf-shuffler.

thank you for these methods, but people that are to be filling out forms
does not even know if there is something Called PS or CLI that exists in
2011 :) :) :) :)


Thank you for your help and thank you for your time ! good luck to you all !




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