Re: PDF correction?

Roger Mills wrote:
> Thanks to Eric and David for your comments. On reviewing the doc., I see
> that indeed the odd chars. appear only in the footnotes (though the font
> there is not visibly different). On balance, this isn't worth bothering
> with, as it's become clear what they represent, and there are fewer than 10
> instances in a 34pp document.
>
> I did discover a list of fonts used -- Lucida Grande (never heard of it) and
> Times New Roman.
>
> David suggested I download it-- that can only be done as a pdf or as txt,
> where I suspect ALL the IPA would be lost; again, it's not worth bothering
> with. Maybe when I have several idle moments to experiment..... And I only
> have Adobe reader AFAIK, no editing stuff. In order to correct my own pdfs,
> I have to correct the original OO doc, then re-save as pdf., no big deal. At
> least I haven't had problems with odd chars. not showing up properly; even
> my Gwr font came through unscathed.
>
> The paper appeared in a book publ. in 1995, so was surely written several
> months to a year or more before then; Adobe/pdf was probably a little
> primitive in those days (if it existed at all), and I doubt good Unicode
> support was widely available; it's likely the author just renamed the old
> file "XXXX Version 2007" and sent it along. I should be glad he still had a
> copy!! because inter-library loan is difficult (and costs money grrr!) here
> in the boondocks.
It could have been one of the old SIL fonts before they switched to
Unicode. There was a SILDoulosIPA font that some of my old documents
use. But I think the velar nasal character was just N in that font, so
that's probably not too likely.