PGM to PDF — Fonts don’t come out right

The graphic I posted on this page, www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html, is a screen capture of the PDF file created with PM7/Distiller on the XP machine.

The "munged text" you see is exactly what I’m trying to get rid of – I’m not doing this for fun. I can’t post the "correct" PDF because I am not finished editing it and before I can create a good PDF, I have to copy tons of files from the XP computer to the Win98SE computer. But this happens every time I try to make a PS/PDF file on the XP machine.

Can anyone tell me what folder TTF font files should go in for PG7/XP?

wrote in message

just for laughs, would you please post what comes off your trysty old win98se machine? or is the sample at the link belo with munged text on purpose?

"Fred" wrote:

To get the PDF to come out with the correct fonts (all Arial, by the

way), I

have to transfer the Pagemaker file and linked files to my trusty old Win98SE computer, which then makes a perfectly good PDF file with no

special

configuring.

I still get the same result. (You can see that the space character is showing up as "#".)

See screen capture at:
www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Fred

Are you creating the PDF by going to Print and choosing Acrobat Distiller?

Peadge 🙂

"Fred" wrote in message

The graphic I posted on this page,

www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html,

is a screen capture of the PDF file created with PM7/Distiller on the XP machine.

The "munged text" you see is exactly what I’m trying to get rid of – I’m

not

doing this for fun. I can’t post the "correct" PDF because I am not finished editing it and before I can create a good PDF, I have to copy

tons

of files from the XP computer to the Win98SE computer. But this happens every time I try to make a PS/PDF file on the XP machine.
Can anyone tell me what folder TTF font files should go in for PG7/XP?

"Fred" wrote in message

Since installing Pagemaker 7.0 on an XP machine, I can make a PDF OK (Pagemaker to Distiller) but the fonts don’t come out right (see screen capture – website address below).

To get the PDF to come out with the correct fonts (all Arial, by the way), I
have to transfer the Pagemaker file and linked files to my trusty old Win98SE computer, which then makes a perfectly good PDF file with no special
configuring.

After I got this output, I copied all the fonts from old computer to this folder:
c:\program files\adobe\pagemaker 7.0\extra\fonts

I still get the same result. (You can see that the space character is showing up as "#".)

See screen capture at:
www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Fred

I use Pagemaker 7.0 with WinXP, and have no trouble with fonts. You don’t say whether you are using a font manager or not; if you are, install fonts according to your font manager’s instructions. Otherwise, all fonts go in c:\windows\fonts. Fonts placed in the Pagemaker folder will only be available to PM. Install fonts using Control Panel.

Be sure that all font locations are listed under Settings -> Font locations in Distiller. Make sure "Ignore Truetype versions …" is unchecked. Make sure Arial isn’t listed in the "Never embed" area (Edit Adobe PDF Settings, "Fonts" tab). In general, read all the options in Distiller’s settings very carefully.

If you are printing to a printer that has resident fonts, your print output may be substituting Helvetica for Arial. Try choosing another virtual printer.

Please post back and let us know what worked!

Peggy

Yes. Print to PS. Then using Distiller to convert PS to PDF.

"Peadge" wrote in message

Are you creating the PDF by going to Print and choosing Acrobat

Distiller?

Peadge 🙂

"Fred" wrote in message

The graphic I posted on this page,

www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html,

is a screen capture of the PDF file created with PM7/Distiller on the XP machine.

The "munged text" you see is exactly what I’m trying to get rid of – I’m

not

doing this for fun. I can’t post the "correct" PDF because I am not finished editing it and before I can create a good PDF, I have to copy

tons

of files from the XP computer to the Win98SE computer. But this happens every time I try to make a PS/PDF file on the XP machine.
Can anyone tell me what folder TTF font files should go in for PG7/XP?

wrote

If the second example ("Local section") is what really is desired, then you have SIGNIFICANT problems with Adobe Acrobat 7 – would sugest uninstalling and reinstalling. Or use a prior version of Acrobat – 5 or 6.

Yes, this is the correct interpretation of the problem. I am using Acrobat
6. Also, if I copy this file to the Win98SE computer, it appears the same
in Acrobat 5 Reader.

Now that you mention it, I see that the characters are being replaced with characters 4 ASCII units later. This must be an installation problem of some kind. Even though the letters are incorrect, I recognize that the font is indeed Arial. Will try re-installing Pagemaker, Distiller and post the outcome.

Thanks, Peggy. Will try your ideas and post the results. Fred

"Peggy" wrote in message

"Fred" wrote in message

Since installing Pagemaker 7.0 on an XP machine, I can make a PDF OK (Pagemaker to Distiller) but the fonts don’t come out right (see screen capture – website address below).

To get the PDF to come out with the correct fonts (all Arial, by the

way),

I
have to transfer the Pagemaker file and linked files to my trusty old Win98SE computer, which then makes a perfectly good PDF file with no special
configuring.

After I got this output, I copied all the fonts from old computer to

this

folder:
c:\program files\adobe\pagemaker 7.0\extra\fonts

I still get the same result. (You can see that the space character is showing up as "#".)

See screen capture at:
www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Fred

I use Pagemaker 7.0 with WinXP, and have no trouble with fonts. You don’t say whether you are using a font manager or not; if you are, install fonts according to your font manager’s instructions. Otherwise, all fonts go in c:\windows\fonts. Fonts placed in the Pagemaker folder will only be available to PM. Install fonts using Control Panel.

Be sure that all font locations are listed under Settings -> Font

locations

in Distiller. Make sure "Ignore Truetype versions …" is unchecked. Make sure Arial isn’t listed in the "Never embed" area (Edit Adobe PDF

Settings,

"Fonts" tab). In general, read all the options in Distiller’s settings

very

carefully.

If you are printing to a printer that has resident fonts, your print

output

may be substituting Helvetica for Arial. Try choosing another virtual printer.

Please post back and let us know what worked!

Peggy

Hi Peggy –

I tried everything you mentioned and still get the "coded" PDF.

However, I was able to go directly from PM and "export to PDF" and got a perfectly normal PDF. This gets me over the hurdle right now, but I still will keep working on trying to find a solution to the PM>PS>PDF problem. This might indicate that the problem could be with Distiller.

Thanks again, and if you or anyone has any more ideas to try on the original problem, please post away!

Fred

"Peggy" wrote in message

"Fred" wrote in message

Since installing Pagemaker 7.0 on an XP machine, I can make a PDF OK (Pagemaker to Distiller) but the fonts don’t come out right (see screen capture – website address below).

To get the PDF to come out with the correct fonts (all Arial, by the

way),

I
have to transfer the Pagemaker file and linked files to my trusty old Win98SE computer, which then makes a perfectly good PDF file with no special
configuring.

After I got this output, I copied all the fonts from old computer to

this

folder:
c:\program files\adobe\pagemaker 7.0\extra\fonts

I still get the same result. (You can see that the space character is showing up as "#".)

See screen capture at:
www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Fred

I use Pagemaker 7.0 with WinXP, and have no trouble with fonts. You don’t say whether you are using a font manager or not; if you are, install fonts according to your font manager’s instructions. Otherwise, all fonts go in c:\windows\fonts. Fonts placed in the Pagemaker folder will only be available to PM. Install fonts using Control Panel.

Be sure that all font locations are listed under Settings -> Font

locations

in Distiller. Make sure "Ignore Truetype versions …" is unchecked. Make sure Arial isn’t listed in the "Never embed" area (Edit Adobe PDF

Settings,

"Fonts" tab). In general, read all the options in Distiller’s settings

very

carefully.

If you are printing to a printer that has resident fonts, your print

output

may be substituting Helvetica for Arial. Try choosing another virtual printer.

Please post back and let us know what worked!

Peggy

Dang thing still don’t work right.

"Fred" wrote in message

Since installing Pagemaker 7.0 on an XP machine, I can make a PDF OK (Pagemaker to Distiller) but the fonts don’t come out right (see screen capture – website address below).

To get the PDF to come out with the correct fonts (all Arial, by the way),

I

have to transfer the Pagemaker file and linked files to my trusty old Win98SE computer, which then makes a perfectly good PDF file with no

special

configuring.

After I got this output, I copied all the fonts from old computer to this folder:
c:\program files\adobe\pagemaker 7.0\extra\fonts

I still get the same result. (You can see that the space character is showing up as "#".)

See screen capture at:
www.geocities.com/lexmark8792/fonts.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Fred

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:35:06 GMT, "Fred"
wrote:

However, I was able to go directly from PM and "export to PDF" and got a perfectly normal PDF.

Very strange, as the "export to PDF" command just automates the process, and still uses Distiller. When there are problems it is usually the other way round — files which can;t be distilled by the automatic process can be distilled by printing to postscript and then using Distiller.

Questions: as you mention you are on XP, do you have the latest MS or Adobe postscript driver (both created by Adobe)? Do you have multiple versions of Distiller?

—
Gordon Woolf
The Worsley Press <www.worsleypress.com>
Publishers of "Publication Production using PageMaker"

Hi Gordon ,

I thought it was strange too. I never have used the Export to PDF option before because I generally need to produce a press-quality PDF and email-quality of the same document. I don’t have that PC with XP on it here, but will check and post the info about the Distiller versions later.

By the way, I’m sure that the drivers I have are not the latest — how do you get the latest version?

"Gordon Woolf" <gwoolf @ nospamnetspace.net.au> wrote in message

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:35:06 GMT, "Fred"
wrote:

However, I was able to go directly from PM and "export to PDF" and got a perfectly normal PDF.

Very strange, as the "export to PDF" command just automates the process, and still uses Distiller. When there are problems it is usually the other way round — files which can;t be distilled by the automatic process can be distilled by printing to postscript and then using Distiller.

Questions: as you mention you are on XP, do you have the latest MS or Adobe postscript driver (both created by Adobe)? Do you have multiple versions of Distiller?

—
Gordon Woolf
The Worsley Press <www.worsleypress.com>
Publishers of "Publication Production using PageMaker"

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 02:44:33 GMT, "Fred"
wrote:

By the way, I’m sure that the drivers I have are not the latest — how do you get the latest version?

The latest postscript drivers should be on both the Microsoft and Adobe websites — probably the same driver as they worked together on them.

—
Gordon Woolf.
The Worsley Press, Hastings, Victoria, Australia
Book publishers
New book:"How to Start and Produce a Magazine
or Newsletter" fourth edition
<www.worsleypress.com>