Re [2]: "unequals" sign in PDF forms

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From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 11:26:45 PST


Hi Pat,

At 11:09 -0800 2003-04-01, Pat Soberanis wrote:
>just a note to the list, though: the professor has to get these
>characters in an existing PDF grant application, which has been set
>up as a form. Apparently, PDF files don't recognize all the
>characters that Word recognizes, but the professor wanted me to ask,
>in case it can be done but we just don't know how.

   That's a tougher situation, agreed. Other than contacting the
person(s) responsible for the Web-based form to ask for assistance,
or inquiring whether they will accept a PDF copy of the professor's
study document outside the Web forms-based submission process, your
professor might try making sure that the the 'unequals' character is
added as a character in the Symbol font, rather than as a character
in some other specialized font.

   From what I recall, they can do that either by choosing the
"Insert->Symbol" command in Word or by choosing the Symbol font, then
entering the code for the character via Alt+nnnn, where 'nnnn' is the
appropriate character code.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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