Checkboxes in ePub Output

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March 20, 2015
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I have a FM document that contains checkboxes. However when I conver to ePub, the checkboxes turn into o's. I have tried editing the settings (both the character format and paragraph format being used), and I can't seem to get the ePub to translate correctly. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for the help!

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SER617Author

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The checkbox symbol is a character tag using Wingdings font. I switched the para font from Palatino Linotype to Times New Roman to see if that would help, and it didn't.

Bob_Niland

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re: The checkbox symbol is a character tag using Wingdings font.

That's a legacy overlay (codepage) font. If the epub workflow is generating Unicode output, it is probably replacing those characters with similar Unicode code points in some other font.

Switch to using a font that populates the Unicode dingbats required. You can use either the unicode.org or decodeuncode.org sites to search for dingbats (the WingDing glyphs ended up all over the place, and some, like the MS Windows icon, didn't make it into Unicode at all).