Hi all,
I’m trying to print a WORD doc to PDF, but the text in “tahoma” font is printed as garbage.
I use WORD 2003 an PDFCreator 1.2.3. Option to download fonts is checked and option to use windows fonts in ghostscript is also checked.
Seems the tahoma, and all non standard fonts, are not embedded in the PDF file. Please don’t tell me to upgrade, I can’t do, this is a corporate computer and I don’t have administrative rights. I, also, experienced the same problem with all the versions of PDFCreator I used.
Some suggestion?
Verzino,
I’m just another user who would like to help you, but I cannot duplicate this behavior (using PDF Creator 1.6.1 + MS Word 2010). I would experiment by trying to print that document using a different word processing program, like LibreOffice or OpenOffice, to rule out Word as the culprit.
Also, what do you have chosen in the Printer Properties–>Advanced–>TrueType Font dropdown-- “Substitute with Device Font” or “Download as Soft Font”? Try toggling that.
More importantly, under PDF Creator Options–>Formats–>PDF–>Fonts tab, do you have “Embed all fonts” checked?
If none of the above suggestions make a difference, upgrade PDF Creator! (Yeah, I know you said don’t say this, but sometimes it’s the only logical choice. Ask the computer’s owner, or whoever installed PDFC in the first place to update the proggie for you). Otherwise, you’ll have to try another PDF print driver.
Good luck, and let us know if you figure it out.
Hi doctrG,
I followed your suggestion and played around to understand the problem. I found a solution, even if I didn’t understood the problem.
Word is not responsible since OpenOffice and PDF Creator 1.2.3 get the same wrong result.
First of all I use PDF-T-Maker from http://www.transcom.de/ to print PDF docs with hiperlinked index, and I use PDF Creator as distiller.
Since PDF Creator after 1.2.3 is incredibly slow with PDT-T-Maker, I have to stay with this version. Newerthless I checked the last version and the problem is still there if I print using PDF-T-Maker.
Instead if I print the file directly to PDF Creator the result is different, version 1.6.1 prints tahoma font correctly, version 1.2.3 prints garbage.
I opened the Word Print dialog box -> properties -> advanced setting then
Document option -> Postscript option -> TrueType download option
I changed from automatic to vector ad now PDF-T-Maket + PDF Creator 1.2.3 works like a charm.
I noticed the font list into PDF generated file only contains Type 1 font, and names are mangled. I don’t see tahoma in the font list.
I’m also not able to change this setting without using the Word printer setting dialog.
I don’t understad why PDF Creator 1.6.1 with the Truetype download option set to automatic prints a PDF file different from 1.2.3.
The darwback is I have to set the word printer PDF Creator, and if I close and reopen word the settings are lost.
Maybe someone can explain what really happened.