Font Problem with

[David Burrous]

Dear Seelangers:

If any of the computer whizzes in Seelangerland could help me with this
problem, I would appreciate it very much.  Please respond off list.
Thank you.
David
dburrous at jeffco.k12.co.us

>
> Here is the problem:
>
> Our goal is to make important district documents available in
> translation via the Internet to our diverse student population in
> Jefferson County Public Schools, Colorado.  Languages with roman
> alphabets are not a problem, but those with other alphabets are a
> challenge.  We are working first with Russian.

> Our plan was to scan the documents and convert them to PDF.  We saw
> that
> the resulting size of larger documents was prohibitively large: the
> first was more than 2 megs.  Since we had had past success creating
> PDF
> versions of complex mathematics tests by converting them from disk, we
>
> decided to try that.
>
> We obtained the appropriate font (SlavicSwissTT), and the resulting
> size of the
> document was 213K, one tenth the size of the scanned image.
> Unfortunately, though, people who downloaded them could only read them
>
> if they, too, had the font (SlavicSwissTT) installed  (This does not
> seem to be a very common font.).  This defeated the entire purpose of
> putting them into PDF.  We tried embedding the font (SlavicSwissTT)
> when we made the
> PDF documents, but that did not work.  We do not know why, but we
> suspect that it may be because the list of embedded fonts does not
> recognize all the fonts used.
>
> We tried converting the document to the fonts that it did recognize,
> but that was similarly unsuccessful.
>
> We want to make our discipline code, parent permission slips,
> innoculation forms, etc. available online in Russian, but we haven't
> gotten it to work yet.

Can anybody help?



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