Font issues

[Mike Wickham]

I've gotten a little lost here. It's possible that the fonts in the text 
samples you previously sent didn't look like Times New Roman because of 
file compression artifacts, ClearType artifacts, or not zooming in 
before you sampled them. When fit to pixels on a screen, a font never 
has the detail of the same size font when printed. So the screen capture 
can be misleading. I'm also a little unclear on what the "source" 
document is. An existing PDF that you want to recreate in FrameMaker? If 
so, you may not be able to get it exact. Even if you get the right font 
and point size, there are line spacing, word spacing, letter spacing, 
and other settings that may affect the formatting of the text.

But you definitely have had some font substitution going on in the 
_source_ file. According to the Fonts tab of the PDF Document Properties 
in the latest text-source-details.png, Times New Roman has been 
substituted for Times and Adobe Serif MM has been substituted for New 
Century Schoolbook. Note the "Actual Font" details for each of those 
fonts, which shows the font actually displayed in the PDF. (If I recall 
correctly, Adobe Serif MM is the font Acrobat uses to generate a false 
serif font, when the actual font is missing. So also check that NCS is 
actually installed.)

But, in text-frame-details.png, the PDF font properties show that TNR is 
indeed being used. So, it appears that the source document is set up to 
use Times and your FM document is set up to use TNR. You have to decide 
which you want to use.

You didn't mention if you tried printing to Adobe PDF to see if there 
was any difference. It tends to be more problem-free than Save as PDF.

Mike Wickham

On 7/20/2013 10:34 AM, Chris Coggins wrote:
> I'm not sure it will help any, but here are a couple more graphics to 
> show what fonts are embedded and in use in the two documents. I'm on 
> XP with Frame 10 and Acrobat X Pro.
>
> Times New Roman is installed in the system fonts directory, and Adobe 
> PDF is set as the default printer.
>