Greek Gamma

I'm having trouble converting the Greek letter Gamma when I
convert my document to pdf format.
It converts fine when it is in an equation, but not in when
it is in the body text.

I tried to record a macro to find instances of Gamma in the
main text and replace it with instances of Microsoft
Equation Editor containing one letter.

Unfortunately when I run the macro I am left with empty
equations. Is it possible to do this or can anyone think of
a better way?

Andrew
Tue Jul 08 05:53:00 CDT 2003

Thanks for your swift reply.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am using pdf995
as it is free and I cant afford Acrobat.

I havent tried printing from a macro yet, I have been just
using the print to pdf option.
I have been trying to replace the Greek Letters with
Equations because, for some reason, equations print OK


/Andrew


>-----Original Message-----
>If you are using Acrobat, and the Acrobat add-in to Word,
have you tried
>simply printing to the Acrobat Distiller driver? I have
found that the same
>document containing Gamma throws an error when printed
from the macro, but
>prints fine when sent directly to the driver. You do
however lose some
>Acrobat functionality this way.
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>Andrew wrote:
>> I'm having trouble converting the Greek letter Gamma
when I
>> convert my document to pdf format.
>> It converts fine when it is in an equation, but not in
when
>> it is in the body text.
>>
>> I tried to record a macro to find instances of Gamma in
the
>> main text and replace it with instances of Microsoft
>> Equation Editor containing one letter.
>>
>> Unfortunately when I run the macro I am left with empty
>> equations. Is it possible to do this or can anyone
think of
>> a better way?
>
>
>.
>

Andi
Tue Jul 08 11:42:38 CDT 2003

do you send the fonts to the PDF?

I tried it with FreePDF from http//shbox.de and it works on my side

Andrew
Tue Jul 08 12:53:01 CDT 2003

how are you sending the fonts?
mine is just setup so you click as if it is a normal
printer
I tried with CutePdf too with the same result
Do you think it is something to do with the Ghostscript
version that I have? (5.5)

>-----Original Message-----
>do you send the fonts to the PDF?
>
>I tried it with FreePDF from http//shbox.de and it works
on my side
>.
>

Andi
Tue Jul 08 16:49:08 CDT 2003

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:15:38 -0700, "Andrew" <someone@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>hmmm, updated to version 8.0 without any luck
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>how are you sending the fonts?

in the printer setup where you make the ps file there should be a
posibility.

btw: try another font, maybe the font you are using doesn't jace the
gamma and word is substituting

Andrew
Wed Jul 09 04:22:48 CDT 2003

If anyone is interested this is how I solved it.

Sub Gamma()
'
' Gamma Macro
' Gamma written 09/07/2003 by Andrew
'


Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=0)
With myRange.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = ChrW(915)
With .Replacement
.ClearFormatting
.Font.Name = "Symbol"
.Text = ChrW(-4025)
End With
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Format:=True,
MatchCase:=True, MatchWholeWord:=True
End With

End Sub


This finds Gamma from the Times New Roman Subset
and replaces Gamma from the Symbol main font set.

Regards

/Andrew

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm having trouble converting the Greek letter Gamma when
I
>convert my document to pdf format.
>It converts fine when it is in an equation, but not in
when
>it is in the body text.
>
>I tried to record a macro to find instances of Gamma in
the
>main text and replace it with instances of Microsoft
>Equation Editor containing one letter.
>
>Unfortunately when I run the macro I am left with empty
>equations. Is it possible to do this or can anyone think
of
>a better way?
>.
>