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Subject:Re: PDF font problem From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 9 Oct 1997 08:28:16 -0500
In our previous episode, Sonja Draeger said:
> I'm having trouble printing my .pdf files. I create the original files =
> in Word using Garamond (W1), use Acrobat Distiller to distill them, then =
> view them in Acrobat Exchange--no problems. But when I print the files =
> the font is completely wrong.=20
I'm pretty sure the trouble is that you're using a printer font
(that's what the (W1) means, I think), and that's the one thing that
Acrobat Distiller has trouble with -- it can understand Type 1 and
TrueType fonts just fine.
We had a similar situation, and once we hunted up a Type 1 version of
Garamond, everything went swimmingly.
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