Okay ... after experimentation to see what I am experiencing. I recreated the large PDF original with 750 pages from the source files ("combined" other PDF files in Acrobat Pro). It is 53 Mbytes in size.
This _original_ file is fine within Acrobat Pro and FlexiPDF - no error messages and they display fine too. However, when I save this original PDF as a new PDF file with the "Reduce PDF size" option selected, the result is screwed up - even though it does get reduced to 34 Mbytes in size! The pages with Source Sans Pro text then get the message I mentioned below when I read it back into Acrobat Pro! With FlexiPDF, the output has overlapping text on those pages - messed up display of the page. As far as I am concerned, this clearly appears to be a bug in Acrobat Pro (the latest version) that *creates* this problem. Also means that I have to stop using the "Reduce PDF size" option - particularly if I use Source Sans Pro, I guess! And live with the larger file size. I would love for somebody to duplicate my results ... argh! Z -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 3:22 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] Weird spacing in PDF output Interesting! The page works in FlexiPDF (my other tool), albeit with some overlapping text (probably implying a font problem, I guess). In Adobe Acrobat Pro, I get an error message and no text whatsoever. Hmmm ... I will reload the font and see what happens ... Z -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 3:10 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] Weird spacing in PDF output Hmmm ... I don't know if the attached screen-capture will come through on this list, but this is the message I get. It is a pop-up window from Adobe Acrobat that says "The font 'SourceSansPro' contains bad /Widths." Needless to say, most of the info on those pages does not show at all ... I will try another PDF program, and also see if I can delete/reload the font on my system to "cure" this issue. A question though: shouldn't I expect the font to be "embedded" in the PDF to begin with? Which might likely mean a source problem? Z -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2020 7:01 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] Weird spacing in PDF output I haven't seen any error messages. I hope that's not the case. Our corporate font is Open Sans, but the tech docs department needs a lot of glyphs that aren't included in it. Source Sans was the closest we could come, and I do not want to have to go looking for another font. On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:42 PM Syed Zaeem Hosain <syed.hos...@aeris.net> wrote: > I wonder if this is related to the font Source Sans Pro? > > Some of my PDF documents that have this font are giving errors in > Acrobat Pro - something to do with "incorrect width". I can look again > if this seems like a possibility. > > Z _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com