On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:59 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
On 2008/09/06(土), at 後1:51, David Froom wrote:
I have had a heck of a time with Finale and pdf going back a long
time (to the beginnings of pdf as a standard format). I am now
using FinMac 2009 on an Intel machine. I have consistently found
that the pdf files were -- and still are -- unreliable. Generally
speaking, they might or might not work on someone else's computer,
often missing clefs or maybe missing out whole fonts.
No idea why you are having this problem. I always check on my XP
machine which as no Finale on it, and it has been fine. The
missing font issue seems to be things in the past, and I don't
remember when that was. OS9?
No, there is an issue in OSX, but I never experienced it as badly as
David was describing it.
I had missing font characters when a client brought my Mac pdf it to
print in a printshop that was running Windows 98. Finale tech support
sorted that one out quickly and easily.
On my OWN computer I got substituted items sometimes while viewing
PDFs (even my own!) (in Preview but not in Acrobat Reader) until I
ran Font Explorer (a free utility) and had it clear out the system
font caches (but nothing else!), thanks to Robert Patterson for the
solution.
David's problems seem to be deeper than mine. I used Acrobat
Distiller 4 in System 9, and when I changed to OSX I was going to
upgrade, but decided against the expense because the system PDF
creation utility was so bullet-proof. Aside from a few "gotcha's", I
have no reason to complain.
Okay, I should explain the gotchas. The Windows 98 one I mentioned
already. PDFs created on Mac can break on Windows 98.
Custom smartshape arrowheads do not export in EPS in 2007 on a Mac. I
haven't tried them in 2008 or 2009, but I hold little hope that they
will export correctly any time soon. If you intend to create a PDF
from an EPS, the EPS will be broken for all purposes if it contains a
custom arrowhead.
If you are sending a PDF to a Windows user, the / character seems to
be a reserved character. This character shows up by default in the
PDF printed from a linked part if you have named a staff Flute/
Piccolo or a group Piano/Vocal. I found out the hard way that some
FTP programs do not allow this character. Apparently, some don't like
spaces in filenames either, so I removed them all and replaced them
with underscores. Fortunately, I ran across a batch filenaming
program called Renamer4Mac that easily did the job for all 300 or so
files. Everything went like clockwork after this.
David, I suggest trying the FontExplorer solution to see if you still
have characters missing or replaced. It certainly helped me.
Christopher
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