RTF is not printed correctly when mixing normal and symbol

[wriedmann]

Hello,

when mixing normal fonts and symbol fonts in RTF text, VPE seems to loose the correct character spacing on the normal parts.

This code works perfectly:

VpeWriteRTF ( hDoc , 200, 200 , VFREE , VFREE, "{{\fonttbl{\f1 Arial;}{\f2 Symbol;}}\f1Hello, this is normal text in \f1 Arial.}" )

whereas with with this code the result is not as exepcted:

VpeWriteRTF( hDoc, 200, 200, VFREE, VFREE, "{{\fonttbl{\f1 Arial;}{\f2 Symbol;}}\f1Hello, this is normal text in \f2 Symbol.}" )

In the first case the text is perfectly readable, in the second case the Arial characters are printed with a negative character-to-character space, resulting in partially overwritten characters.

I had this issue because a customer needed greek characters in a normal text.

Thank you in advance!

Wolfgang

[IDEAL Software Support]

For symbol fonts used in RTF you need to specify the Symbol Charset with \fcharset2 in the font table.

Example:
VpeWriteRTF(hDoc, 2, 2, -17, VFREE, "{{\fonttbl{\f1 Arial;}{\f2 Symbol;\fcharset2}}\f1Hello \f2 Symbol.}")

[wriedmann]

Thank you very much!

Please include this in the help for the next version if possible.

Wolfgang