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Subject:RE: Adobe Acrobat not picking up arrows from Word From:Robert Rinehart <rrinehart -at- smithdata -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 May 2002 10:04:15 -0400
Thanks! I checked "Embed All Fonts" and now it works!
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:44 AM
To: Robert Rinehart
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat not picking up arrows from Word
1. Do you have "Embed all fonts" turned on in your Distiller Job Options?
2. If you zoom in on the PDF, do the arrows magically appear?
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Robert Rinehart <rrinehart -at- smithdata -dot- net>
Reply-To: Robert Rinehart <rrinehart -at- smithdata -dot- net>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 09:40:55 -0400
>
>Hello all,
>
>Thanks to everyone who contributed thoughts on distributing our manuals in
>pdf format. All has gone well until now, when we discovered that the arrows
>we use throughout thse manuals to designate file locations (EX: Go to
>File--> Reports --> GL Reports) do not appear in the PDFs. We created these
>arrows in word, where '-->' creates the arrow character. Is there any
>solution to this that will not be time-consuming as hell? We have an IT
>Manager itching for this stuff.
>Thanks,
>
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