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Re: Today's frustration - PDF printing fine in 4.0, but not in 5
Subject:Re: Today's frustration - PDF printing fine in 4.0, but not in 5 From:John Root <jroot -at- publisys -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:55:28 -0700
On 7/10/02 11:39 AM, "Evan Martin" <evan -dot- martin -at- garvin-allen -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Please. Someone give me the simple solution that I must be missing here.
>
> I have created a document in Word, converted it to pdf. When I print it
> using Acrobat reader 4.0 it prints fine, but on a computer with reader 5.0,
> the text comes out as small rectangles and squares.
>
> I tried other printers, other pdfs and the same thing happens. Any ideas?
>
Evan,
What's the font you're having problems with?
Have you tried upgrading to the latest version of Reader (5.0.5)?
Have you tried generating the PDF using Distiller or are you using
PDFWriter?
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