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Problem with degree sign in Microsoft Word
Hi,
The following problem happens with all PDFCreator versions up to 0.9.8:
When (at least in Word 2003) a degree sign is used, and a PDF is created from that doc with PDFCreator, an extra space is added further in the sentence. It depends on which character is used for the degree sign.
A reproduceable example in Word is:
At 360º the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. [Alt0186]
At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. [Alt248]
At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. [Alt0176]
The Alt codes are used to create the degree sign characters in Word.
In the PDF this comes out as:
At 360º the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. [Alt0186]
At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy do g. [Alt248]
At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy do g. [Alt0176]
In the second and third case, the extra space is created in the word "dog". In the first case it does not happen, but Alt0186 is not a real degree sign. Officially it is a masculine ordinal indicator for the Portuguese language.
Could this be a bug in PDFCreator?
Did you find some solution for this problem?
Greetz,
Sascha
It seems that the Ghostscript people are finding a solution to this. As this issue is reported twice, please refer to the second thread: http://www.pdfforge.org/forum/open-discussion/5599-incorrect-printing-%C2%B0c
We thought it was fixed, but is seems to be there. Please notice this workaorund for the moment: http://www.pdfforge.org/content/degree-symbol-overlaps-following-character
We hope to finally fix this in PDFCreator 1.2.1
I looked all over google for it!! Thanks for the info..pfff! :)