Publishing to PDF with Wingdings

[Ga Bowen]

I have an Acrobat script which converts all instances of a Wingdings box to a clickable checkbox.

This works exporting to pdf from Word and printing a topic to pdf from H+M.

However, publishing from H+M somehow renders the Wingdings characters invisible to the script.

I have tried all combinations of Font Embedding including adding Wingdings to the Excluded List.

What I find extra odd is that if I edit the pdf, copy the Wingdings character and paste it over itself, the script will find and convert.

[Tim Green]

Hi Ga,

Windows-only fonts like Wingdings are converted to more neutral symbol fonts for HTML export because non-MS browsers ignore them otherwise. I'm not entirely sure at the moment, but it's possible this also applies to PDF. I'm checking on this.

[Alexander Halser]

Symbol fonts like Wingdings and Symbol are exported to PDF as graphics by default.

You can change this option in Configuration > Publishing Options > Adobe PDF > Font Embedding.
Deactivate the option "Export Symbol Fonts as Glyphs" and export the PDF again.


To test your PDF, open it with Adobe Viewer and click "File > Properties". In the properties dialog is a page that lists all embedded fonts of this PDF file. Wingdings should occur in this list as "Wingdings". If that's the case, your script should pick up the checkboxes properly.

[Ga Bowen]

Thanks for your replies, but it still doesn't work.

When I open it with Adobe Viewer and click File > Properties > Fonts, Wingdings is in the list of all embedded fonts in the PDF file, but the script does not pick up the checkboxes.



As I say, if you select the symbol, copy it and paste it over itself, the script works fine.

That saying, when I do this operation Wingdings-Regular is added as a non-embedded font to the Fonts Used in this Document



I have emailed the script dev as well.

[Ga Bowen]

SOLVED!

I was using a square instead of a checkbox apparently. Still doesn't explain how the workaround worked, but work it does.

Thanks for your help.