Omega symbol becomes W in pdf

[Phil Heron]

Two things for you to check, Nancy:

1. Make sure you have the Windows Symbol font installed. This is used in some magic way by Distiller and it's abcense causes the sort of problem you are seeing.

2. In FrameMaker, check that your Symbol character tag uses the Windows "Symbol" font and NOT the "Symbol Std" font. Symbol Std is a private font installed by FrameMaker.

HTH

Phil Heron

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
Sent: 17 March 2009 21:46
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Omega symbol becomes W in pdf


My document uses some special symbols, like the Omega.

To create it, I type W and then apply a Symbol character tag, which applies the Symbol font.

I've created PDFs from this file in two ways:

---Used Framemaker's "Save as" feature.

---Printed to .ps file and opened it in Acrobat Distiller. In this case, I've deselected "Do not send fonts to printer." I believe this should assure that the Symbol font is sent to the printer.

Either way, the Omega character is turned back into a W in the final PDF.

This is also happening with the Symbol +/minus sign (the plus is directly over the minus) -- it is transformed into a plain minus sign.
NOT GOOD.

I'm sure this problem is as old as the hills, but I have Googled lots of phrases and have not found a good treatment of this subject.

In the short term, I'm creating .gifs of the symbols and importing them into the text as graphics, but that is time-consuming and clumsy.

All suggestions will be very welcome.

--Nancy
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