Re: Font issues
I've gotten a little lost here. It's possible that the fonts in the text samples you previously sent didn't look like Times New Roman because of file compression artifacts, ClearType artifacts, or not zooming in before you sampled them. When fit to pixels on a screen, a font never has the detail of the same size font when printed. So the screen capture can be misleading. I'm also a little unclear on what the source document is. An existing PDF that you want to recreate in FrameMaker? If so, you may not be able to get it exact. Even if you get the right font and point size, there are line spacing, word spacing, letter spacing, and other settings that may affect the formatting of the text. But you definitely have had some font substitution going on in the _source_ file. According to the Fonts tab of the PDF Document Properties in the latest text-source-details.png, Times New Roman has been substituted for Times and Adobe Serif MM has been substituted for New Century Schoolbook. Note the Actual Font details for each of those fonts, which shows the font actually displayed in the PDF. (If I recall correctly, Adobe Serif MM is the font Acrobat uses to generate a false serif font, when the actual font is missing. So also check that NCS is actually installed.) But, in text-frame-details.png, the PDF font properties show that TNR is indeed being used. So, it appears that the source document is set up to use Times and your FM document is set up to use TNR. You have to decide which you want to use. You didn't mention if you tried printing to Adobe PDF to see if there was any difference. It tends to be more problem-free than Save as PDF. Mike Wickham On 7/20/2013 10:34 AM, Chris Coggins wrote: I'm not sure it will help any, but here are a couple more graphics to show what fonts are embedded and in use in the two documents. I'm on XP with Frame 10 and Acrobat X Pro. Times New Roman is installed in the system fonts directory, and Adobe PDF is set as the default printer. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Font issues
I've gotten a little lost here. It's possible that the fonts in the text samples you previously sent didn't look like Times New Roman because of file compression artifacts, ClearType artifacts, or not zooming in before you sampled them. When fit to pixels on a screen, a font never has the detail of the same size font when printed. So the screen capture can be misleading. I'm also a little unclear on what the "source" document is. An existing PDF that you want to recreate in FrameMaker? If so, you may not be able to get it exact. Even if you get the right font and point size, there are line spacing, word spacing, letter spacing, and other settings that may affect the formatting of the text. But you definitely have had some font substitution going on in the _source_ file. According to the Fonts tab of the PDF Document Properties in the latest text-source-details.png, Times New Roman has been substituted for Times and Adobe Serif MM has been substituted for New Century Schoolbook. Note the "Actual Font" details for each of those fonts, which shows the font actually displayed in the PDF. (If I recall correctly, Adobe Serif MM is the font Acrobat uses to generate a false serif font, when the actual font is missing. So also check that NCS is actually installed.) But, in text-frame-details.png, the PDF font properties show that TNR is indeed being used. So, it appears that the source document is set up to use Times and your FM document is set up to use TNR. You have to decide which you want to use. You didn't mention if you tried printing to Adobe PDF to see if there was any difference. It tends to be more problem-free than Save as PDF. Mike Wickham On 7/20/2013 10:34 AM, Chris Coggins wrote: > I'm not sure it will help any, but here are a couple more graphics to > show what fonts are embedded and in use in the two documents. I'm on > XP with Frame 10 and Acrobat X Pro. > > Times New Roman is installed in the system fonts directory, and Adobe > PDF is set as the default printer. >
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