> The file was created by MS Word 2007 on Vista using Word‘s own “Save as”
> → “PDF or XPS”.
> Any advice is welcomed!
> Thanks Tomáš
Perhaps the document was created without the fonts being embedded, so Acrobat has used native fonts from the local operating system. This is normal if the creator omits to embed the fonts.
Thanks a lot for your response. That was my original hypothesis. But it
seemed strange to me that it happens with characters that are “normal”
in 99 % of the cases, and it happens without any change in font, shape
or size, sometimes even in the middle of a word… I believed that the
glyph is either embedded or not, but this looks like sometimes it is and
sometimes it is not.
Well, I know very little about font embedding mechanisms, so I‘ll advise
my colleague to look for an option “embed fonts“ or similar.
>> The file was created by MS Word 2007 on Vista using Word‘s own “Save as”
>> → “PDF or XPS”.
>> Any advice is welcomed!
>> Thanks Tomáš
> Perhaps the document was created without the fonts being embedded, so
> Acrobat has used native fonts from the local operating system. This is
> normal if the creator omits to embed the fonts.
Well the file uses a remarkable array of fonts. Peculiarly some fonts are present multiple times (in different forms) and even more oddly some of the uses are embedded, and some aren't.....
I'm using Acrobat Pro 9 and Acrobat Reader X, on Windows, and both of these display the file 'correctly'. What application and OS are you using to display the PDF file, which produces the screenshot you posted earlier ? It looks like Acrobat, but.....
In passing I notice that the file was modified 15 minutes after creation, and I wonder if whatever tool modified the PDF has had some adverse effect upon it.
This does look like a font substitution issue. The missing fonts are flavours of Arial (named "Arial", "Arial,Bold" and "Arial,BoldItalic"). As I noted above the file does contain some fonts with those names, but in some places these embedded fonts are not the fonts which are actually being used. In at least two cases the switch takes place mid-word.
The substitue font used by the viewer application is not a good match for the missing fonts, which is why it looks bad on screen.
As a previous reply stated, the originators should try and ensure that the fonts which are used are actually embedded. Given the fact that the file has been modified, however, I wonder if the modifying application is hte one which is at fault. You might ask if someone 'corrected' the file after it was produced.
> Thanks a lot for your response. That was my original hypothesis. But it
> seemed strange to me that it happens with characters that are “normal”
> in 99 % of the cases, and it happens without any change in font, shape
> or size, sometimes even in the middle of a word… I believed that the
> glyph is either embedded or not, but this looks like sometimes it is and
> sometimes it is not.
> Well, I know very little about font embedding mechanisms, so I‘ll advise
> my colleague to look for an option “embed fonts“ or similar.
Can you describe what is actually wrong with it? Having opened the whole PDF, it looks fine, so there is obviously something about it that we don't know. Is it meant to be in some other typeface entirely?
In article <9pg60nFhg...@mid.individual.net>, pe...@silmaril.ie says...
> Can you describe what is actually wrong with it? Having opened the whole > PDF, it looks fine, so there is obviously something about it that we > don't know. Is it meant to be in some other typeface entirely?
The original post contained a URL to a screen shot of the offending result.
The problem has been solved. When the pdf was re-created in PDF/A mode,
everything is OK, so probably the font embedding was not forced in the
previous version.
> In article <jgrmve$79...@dont-email.me>, motare...@seznam.cz says...
> What application and OS are you > using to display the PDF file, which produces the screenshot you posted > earlier ? It looks like Acrobat, but.....
It is AdobeReader 9.4.2 for Linux on Mandriva 10.2
> In passing I notice that the file was modified 15 minutes after > creation, and I wonder if whatever tool modified the PDF has had some > adverse effect upon it.
You are right, my colleague created the outlines in a second step with
Acrobat.
Anyway, the problem is solved, see the main branch of this discussion.
