The OpenEdge Hive

Hello,

I have discovered an issue with PDF include - when you use it to fill pdf forms using non-standard character set (CP1250 in my case), the character codepage in the form fields gets wrong. Also, character width is sometimes messed up.
I use most current SVN version of PDF include and OpenOffice 3.2 to generate forms (tried 3.1 as well, with same result).
PDF file structure is a kind of mystery for me, so it's possible that my analysis went in quite wrong direction, but there is what I discovered:
- Forms generated by OO have fonts of form fields defined by abbreviate names, like /TiRo for Times Roman and so on
- It seems that correct codepage appears in generated PDF only for built-in fonts (defined as /BF(n) )
- pdf_inc.p runs pdf_resources before pdf_content. So if particular font is used only in the form field, and not in the formular body then it's definition (widths for example) does not get into pdf file

I made some quick update into pdf_inc.p. Basically I did two things:
- replaced font names in the forms from abbreviations to built-in definitions (for Arial and Times New Roman only, as I understand from other posts Courier does not work anyway).
- removed usage of TT_pdf_font.used_flag so all fonts gets into pdf (I know it's dirty...)

If you are interested, please let me know, but I believe that the author will be able to do it much cleaner than me.

Regards,

Piotr