PDF Font Trouble

[JayTurner19]

When I export to PDF, certain characters dont show. In another file, all apostrophes show up as "@"

I am having a lot of trouble with this, and I am starting to get heat from the boss. Can anybody help?

[PrintDriver]

ermmm....

What program?
Using Distiller?
What settings?
What OS?

[D-Zine]

^^ what PD said

[Jason Fraker]

Just go into the file and change all apostrophies to @ symbols, that'll reverse the substitution. Kidding! ^^ what they said!

[D-Zine]

lmao @ Jason :p

[JayTurner19]

Im exporting a PDF file from Quark 6.5 on Windows XP Pro

When I bring it up in Adobe Reader, wing dings show up for some characters, namely apostraphes and specialty characters from the character map.


Ive tried just about everything i think:

Embed fonts, subset 100%, ASCII format (not sure what that really does though), compress text/line art.

The only other thing I can think of is to change the font. I have Palatino Linotype bold italic, maybe switch to Times would help.

Apparently Im newer at this than I thought, which is not good at this point as Im working at a major bank.

Thanks for your help.

[D-Zine]

Do you use Distiller? If not, do you have distiller there so that you *can* use it?

[JayTurner19]

I do not have distiller, just Adobe reader.

The higher-ups in my company also just use reader.

I dont know if that will be a problem or not.

[Broacher]

>>The only other thing I can think of is to change the font. I have Palatino Linotype bold italic, maybe switch to Times would help.<<

What kind of font is the Palatino? As Palationo is a common printer font, I suspect there's printer font substitution settings involved here-- especially if we're talking TrueType. Even outside of Quark, there are switches in most drivers giving many different options for downloading and substitition of TTFs.

[PrintDriver]

The higher ups can keep Reader. You can use acrobat distiller and they can still read the pdfs made from it. Sometimes Quark's pdf writer just plain sucks. For Quark I always print to postscript and distill when I need pdfs.

[D-Zine]

Absolutely ^^ that is what I do. Sometimes its really the only thing you can do when creating PDFs from Quark. Just as habit that is what I do now. No headaches this way!