Acrobat 8/8.1 Dropping Text in PDF

[Dov Isaacs]

The trouble with this whole problem is that we are
most likely dealing with secondary and tertiary effects
of whatever the "real" problem is.

	- Dov
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Schäffer [mailto:js at grafikhuset.dk] 
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:45 PM
> 
> Dov,
> 
> You wrote:
> > (2) So far we haven't seen the NUMBER of fonts as the key 
> variable as 
> > to what causes corruption or too large a font cache file. As I have 
> > indicated in early communications, my systems routinely run 
> with about 
> > 1400 to 1600 active typefaces, all concurrently installed.
> 
> 	We have several customers where removing supernumerary 
> fonts from their systems actually solved the text drop out 
> problem. Perhaps this font removal forced the system to 
> refresh FNTCACHE.dat -- which seem quite likely given the 
> number of fonts we removed, 500+ (that said, I urge all 
> Framemaker users to remember that fonts to remove must be 
> selected in meticulous detail to avoid deleting vital system fonts.)
> 
> - Jacob
>