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The only sure cure, as Leonard and co have said, is to embed all fonts from your system folder. Regards, Chris. > -----Original Message----- > From: Aruna Aysola [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 March 2004 14:40 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs > > Since I am making a CD of all pdf files, I put a tiny note on the CD to > download Adobe Reader version 5.5 or higher from Adobe website. > > aruna > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Ryan > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs > > > > I've had a similar problem I think. A file created in > Acrobat 6 when viewed on Acrobat 4 on another machine appeared to have > some of the text overwrite on each other. What I did was, there was an > update for Acrobat 4 and when loaded onto the machine the file appeared > perfect. Perhaps this is the cure. > Tony > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Aruna Aysola <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > <mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:43 PM > Subject: RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs > > I think I have a similar problem. > > I have many pdf documents made out of different > programmes viz., Microsoft word, Quark Express, Microsoft Excel. Some of > these files have been made to pdfs in version 4, some of them in version > 6. They are all fine. I am making a CD consisting of > all these pdfs. I made a single pdf consisting all the pdfs (through > insert-page). > > I have version 6 of Acrobat and the CD looks fine on > my computer. The same CD on a computer > which has version 4 of Acrobat Reader - some of the > heading fonts go funny. They get overwritten, > squished etc. Is it the problem with the Reader > version? How come the individual files look fine, > but when I put them together or make a binder the > fonts go funny. > > Any clues will be much appreciated. > > thanks, > > Aruna Aysola > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rich Sprague > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs > > > A. System fonts (Times New Roman and Arial) do not > need to be embedded. > > B. The PDFWriter does not embed fonts...Distiller > will embed the copyright symbol. > > C. What version of Distiller are you using...the > PDFWriter was discontinued after version 4? > > D. It sounds like you need to upgrade...AB is at > version 6. > > Rich > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of webmaster > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 12:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs > > > Here's a query I have regarding making pdfs out of > Word documents. > > I format the Word document to look exactly the way I > want it to. > > I then print it via Adobe Acrobat - which gives me > two choices... PDFwrite and Distiller. > > Distiller doesn't allow me to embed fonts so I > always choose the PDFWriter option. > > Trouble is... the resulting pdf file seems to > arbitrarily decide to mess up some of the text... letters will be overlaid > or crunched up so they're unreadable. > > I can re-type the offending page in Word, export > that single page as a pdf and then replace the corrupted page in the pdf > document - which is a time consuming but effective way of overcoming the > problem. > > Is there a better way to do this? > > Also... I can't seem to find anyway at all of > getting the pdf file to embed the copyright symbol... It appears as a ? > when I use PDFWriter so I know it's not been embedded and in Distiller it > appears as the correct copyright symbol but when I upload my document to > where I want it to go I keep getting the error message telling me my fonts > aren't embedded. > > I've tried other free converters such as Win2PDF and > 995PDF but they seem to be impossible to format correctly. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > Paul > > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
