Greek Gamma

[Andrew]

I'm having trouble converting the Greek letter Gamma when I
convert my document to pdf format.
It converts fine when it is in an equation, but not in when
it is in the body text.

I tried to record a macro to find instances of Gamma in the
main text and replace it with instances of Microsoft
Equation Editor containing one letter.

Unfortunately when I run the macro I am left with empty
equations. Is it possible to do this or can anyone think of
a better way?

 

[Andrew]

Thanks for your swift reply.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am using pdf995
as it is free and I cant afford Acrobat.

I havent tried printing from a macro yet, I have been just
using the print to pdf option.
I have been trying to replace the Greek Letters with
Equations because, for some reason, equations print OK


/Andrew

 

[Andi Mayer]

do you send the fonts to the PDF?

I tried it with FreePDF from http//shbox.de and it works on my side

 

[Andrew]

how are you sending the fonts?
mine is just setup so you click as if it is a normal
printer
I tried with CutePdf too with the same result
Do you think it is something to do with the Ghostscript
version that I have? (5.5)

 

[Andi Mayer]

hmmm, updated to version 8.0 without any luck

in the printer setup where you make the ps file there should be a
posibility.

btw: try another font, maybe the font you are using doesn't jace the
gamma and word is substituting

 

[Andrew]

If anyone is interested this is how I solved it.

Sub Gamma()
'
' Gamma Macro
' Gamma written 09/07/2003 by Andrew
'


Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=0)
With myRange.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = ChrW(915)
With .Replacement
.ClearFormatting
.Font.Name = "Symbol"
.Text = ChrW(-4025)
End With
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Format:=True,
MatchCase:=True, MatchWholeWord:=True
End With

End Sub


This finds Gamma from the Times New Roman Subset
and replaces Gamma from the Symbol main font set.

Regards

/Andrew