Getting rid of proprietary fonts

[Dotan Shavit]

On 01/22/2012 04:34 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Hi, I have an 80 page OpenOffice document (Hspell's "niqqudless.odt")
> which I wrote, shamefully, assuming Microsoft's TrueType fonts.
>
> Now, I wanted to switch this document to use only free fonts, such as
> the Culmus fonts for Hebrew, Nimbus Sans for English, and the DejaVu
> fonts for other languages in this document (Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Russian,
> etc.). The result will not only be freeer - it actually looks better!
>
> Starting the transformation was easy - I modified the few main paragraph
> and character styles that I was using, and in a few minutes, most of the
> document was converted to the free fonts.
>
> But my problem is that the long document *still* uses the non-free fonts in
> some places. I can see this if I export the document to PDF, and run "pdffonts"
> on it. I indeed found a bunch of places where this happened (e.g., I
> explicitly used a certain font on some word, instead of relying on a style),
> but couldn't find *ALL* of them, so my document still depends on these
> non-free fonts.
>
> I wonder if anybody knows how I can use OpenOffice, or some other tool,
> to find *where* in the document a certain font is being used?

Hmm... Save as HTML ?

#

> As a last resort, I plan to open the .odt file and read the XML where
> this information has to exist - but before I do that, I wonder if
> someone knows an easier OpenOffice option, or tool, exists.
>
> Thanks,
> Nadav.
>