Printing special symbols in OOo 2.0.4

I often need to include the permille symbol (looks a bit like 0/00) in 
text documents. This was never a problem with WordPro, nor back in the 
old days when I used WordPerfect running under WINOS2, but I can't get 
the symbol to print in OOo Writer documents. Only a few font sets 
include the permille symbol(e.g. DejaVu, Lucida, the old WP Typographic 
symbol set). If selected these all show the correct symbol on-screen, 
but in the printed document the symbol appears as a question mark, an 
open box or a blank space. This is the case when printing from a 
standard LaserJet or a Postscript LaserJet. Does anybody know a font 
that includes permille and WILL print correctly? Alternatively is there 
a tweak I can apply to OOo's settings that will allow non-standard 
symbols to print correctly?

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:43:00 +0100, Michael wrote:

>I often need to include the permille symbol (looks a bit like 0/00) in 
>text documents. Alternatively is there 
>a tweak I can apply to OOo's settings that will allow non-standard 
>symbols to print correctly?

You could try creating PDFs in OpenOffice and then print those. Should work
better, especially when you have font problems.

Cheers
Andreas

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Andreas Ludwig
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:54:48 +0100, Michael wrote:

>Yes, I've tried this and it works, but it isn't really a satisfactory 
>solution, is it? OOo ought to be able to print everything that's 
>displayed on screen, or are the days of WYSIWYG over?

Well, it's certainly not great but it's a workaround I can live with. You can
also try font replacement to get this issue sorted out, IIRC. 
BTW, am I the only one that cannot get text drag and drop done in OOo/2? That
would be much more important to me.

Cheers
Andreas

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Andreas Ludwig
Vancouver, BC
using PMINews 2 on eCS 1.2R German!
http://andreas-ludwig.info/

Andreas Ludwig wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:43:00 +0100, Michael wrote:
> 
>> I often need to include the permille symbol (looks a bit like 0/00) in

>> text documents. Alternatively is there 
>> a tweak I can apply to OOo's settings that will allow non-standard 
>> symbols to print correctly?
> 
> You could try creating PDFs in OpenOffice and then print those. Should
work
> better, especially when you have font problems.
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas
> 
Andreas,
Yes, I've tried this and it works, but it isn't really a satisfactory 
solution, is it? OOo ought to be able to print everything that's 
displayed on screen, or are the days of WYSIWYG over?

Michael wrote:

> Does anybody know a font 
> that includes permille and WILL print correctly? Alternatively is there 
> a tweak I can apply to OOo's settings that will allow non-standard 
> symbols to print correctly?

A font alone is not enough, you have to find the codepage which will 
print it. Try 1004 as second codepage. With chcp you can change 
codepage. I was lucky with cp 852, Hungarian cp. But i even had to 
change the country code to 36 in config.sys.
Good luck.