Font problems (was: Re: [Buddha-l] Women's Role in the Sangha)

[Piya Tan]

Thanks again Chris for the detailed info.

A student of mine suggested Foxit Reader and it works.

Thanks again

Piya


On 8/1/07, Christopher Fynn <cfynn at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Margaret Gouin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, August 1, 2007 2:51 am, Piya Tan wrote:
> >> The very first paper by the Congress of Western Buddhist Nuns, entitled
> >> Research regarding the Lineage of Bhiksuni Ordination
> > <
> http://www.congress-on-buddhist-women.org/fileadmin/files/Establishing%20Full%20Ordination%207_dia.pdf
> >
> >> located at:
> >> http://www.congress-on-buddhist-women.org/index.php?id=29
> >> seems to be filled mostly with dots and dashes, although it is PDF.
>
>
> > It comes up fine for me. Which probably means I have the font they used
> on
> > my computer and you don't. This seems to me to be a major problem with
> PDF
> > files--people assume that just making a PDF will include all the
> necessary
> > fonts--it doesn't. You have to embed the necessary fonts so that other
> > people can read them. I can try to figure out which font it is and let
> you
> > know.
>
>
> I had the same problem with Acrobat 8 Reader though it opens OK with
> Acrobat 7.
>
> The font is TimesCS Roman - The font *is* embedded, but there seems to be
> some
> small fault in the Regular / Normal version of the font which causes
> Acrobat 8
> to have a problem extracting or displaying it properly. The italic and
> bold
> faces seem to work fine in both Acrobat 7 & 8.
>
>
> BTW
> I don't know why anyone is still using fonts with the non-standard &
> outdated
> CS & CSX encodings in order to display diacritic characters.
> Windows (2000, XP and later), Mac OS-X, Linux and Unix all support Unicode
> - which has all the diacritics characters needed by Indologists and
> others.
> John Smith who created the CSX fonts has stoped distributing them and now
> has free Unicode fonts available:
> <http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/index.html>
> <http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/induni/index.html>
> On that site John also has some Word macros available to convert old
> documents
> from CSX encoding to Unicode - as well as some free Devanagari fonts.
>
> A couple of other free Unicode fonts with diacritic characters are
> Gentium (a very high quality font by Victor Gaultney)
> <
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_download
> >
> and Linux Libertine
> <http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>
>
> The "Georgia" font which comes with MS Windows also seems to have all the
> necessary diacritic characters for transliterating Sanskrit & Pali.
>
> Using Unicode / iso10646 encoding in your documents with properly encoded
> fonts
> should mean that they may be searched using Google, Yahoo and so on if you
> make
> the documents available on the Web.
>
> - Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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