Custom font renders different when saving as PDF vs print PS and distill

[Dov Isaacs]

Rick and I discussed this over the phone.

The problem appears to be associated with not using the RGB option when using the "save as PDF" option.

When you don't use the RGB option, FrameMaker uses the old UNIX FrameMaker PostScript generator instead of using the Windows PostScript driver via GDI. Apparently that UNIX PostScript generator code had some problems mapping characters in Rick's symbol font. It could have been a missing mapping table in the font itself.

            - Dov

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:47 AM
To: Rick Quatro; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Custom font renders different when saving as PDF vs print PS and distill


Before you saved as PDF, did you forget to select the Adobe PDF printer?



On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com<mailto:rick at rickquatro.com>> wrote:

> Hi Framers,

>

> I have a FrameMaker 10 document that uses a custom TTF symbols font. The

> symbols display fine in my FrameMaker document. When I Save As PDF, the

> symbols become squares in the PDF. ...
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