PDF Export Problem - Bullet Points Not Displaying Properly

[easyrider7]

Hi

When I exported an Open Office Writer document as a PDF, there was a problem with bullet points. They came out as the number 35 with the number 17 under it. I tried again and again, but the same thing happened.

I thought that I might have a corrupted version of Open Office, so I uninstalled and then reinstalled it. Then I tried the export again, but this time the bullet had disappeared completely. There was nothing in its place.

What is happening and how do I fix this?

[floris_v]

That's not corruption of OOo. It's a problem of a font not getting full support from your OS or of that font not containing the bullet point character used in your OOo document. Are you testing the PDF on the same computer? Have you tried other PDF conversion software, like CutePDFWriter?
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[easyrider7]

I am opening the pdf on the same computer. And previous pdf versions of the same document display the bullets fine.

Okay, I went to the bullets and turned them off and then back on. Now they work when I do the export. However, the new bullets are quite a bit smaller than the ones in the old pdf (both pdfs are set to 100%).

[easyrider7]

Okay, I have discovered the issue:

Somehow the formatting on the bullets changed from Verdana to Symbol (without me doing anything). When I changed the font back to Verdana and to the size I was using for the rest of the document the bullets reappeared and returned to their normal size.

[floris_v]

Do you save in Word format? That might explain such glitches.
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[alf_gand]

I had a similar problem, but clocks did appear instead of the bullets.

It effectively have something to do with the font format. I was using a Helvetica-like font, apparently the pdf export didn't like the Helvetica bullets.

So here is the solution :
1. You write your text (or just the part that will have bullets) with a very common font, such as Arial.
2. When everything is done, ready to export in PDF, select the text and change the font to the one you want to use.
3. Export !

Here you go, it seems that the bullets stay in the format they were created.

[cabal28]

I'm having the issue now. I've tried changing the font of the bullet points to Arial, Times New Roman, Veranda, Courier, etc... But every time I export it to .pdf the bullet points convert to numbers.