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No, the only sure cure is to upgrade from Acrobat 4 to 6. There were countless font problems in 4.x, including the switch of fonts from Helvetica/Times to Arial/Times New Roman, new and stringent embedding restrictions, the default for Distiller was not to embed system fonts, and the PDFWriter wouldn't allow any embedding. The issues people are currently having with Acrobat 4 are issues which first appeared five years ago. The new version of Acrobat eliminates the majority of these fonts issues (although one still can't embed restricted fonts). Upgrade is only $99 for standard - $149 for pro. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of display Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:40 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ 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 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
