On Nov 3, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I recently bought Adobe Distiller. I was previously using PStill or
the MacOS built in PDF support.
Surprisingly I have never ever had as many PDF problems before as I am
now having with Adobe Distilled files. The main problem is random
missing characters from the Maestro font (they are replaced by a
rectangle character), but only when printing (on a non-postscript
printer). The problems do not show on screen.
Does anyone know where the problem is, and what can be done about it?
I have gone back to PStill for the moment, but I would at least like
to know where the problem lies.
On my old computer I used to frequently have the problem you describe
-- characters replaced by rectangles when printing.
I don't understand the details, but I know it is associated with lack
of memory. Closing other programs, or being sure that the computer
isn't doing something else while printing, often made a difference.
Sometimes it helped if I'd print only a page or two at a time rather
than the whole document. Occasionally I'd have a file I couldn't print
right at all, and I'd have to print it from someone else's computer.
I haven't had the problem at all since I upgraded my computer a few
years ago. I always imagined the problem was a consequence of working
on an old dinosaur computer. But I don't really know that. Everything
I surmised about the problem was from trial and error plus speculation.
... Oh, I almost forgot. There was a function that said something like
"download fonts to printer", which I could choose before printing. I
*always* did that. If I didn't it was a mess.
mdl
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