Re: [Swftools-common] Special Characters (Umlaut, copyright symbol, etc) are missing on SWF output

[Chris Pugh]

On 8 June 2010 19:17, JL <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for the response Hans.  I tried running with your strings to see
> if that made a difference and no luck, appreciate the attempt though.
>
> Looking at the font in the PDF, it is listed as a TrueType font...not sure
> if that has any particular affect....its just weird that just the special
> characters of that font...are not being displayed... the rest seem to do ok.
>
> Anyone have any other thoughts? on why some characters do not show up?

Do you have all the correct XPDF font's installed?   Do check.   If in doubt,
install them.  They're available from here,

   ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/

Also, if you do the conversion with the verbose flags, say -vv or -vvv, it may
actually give you a clue as to why the characters are missing.

Finally, just for fun, create a SWF font, and then display it.  Just to see what
happens.

   http://www.swftools.org/font2swf.html

Best,



Chris.