damogran Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 hi there, when i export a document as PDF i noticed that certain characters look strange. for example I and l. please have a look at the attachments. is this a bug or a feature? :-) thank you damo test.afdesign test.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I am not seeing anything odd in viewing the PDF in PDF-XChange Editor (Windows 10). Looks fine. But it does not look as good in FlexiPDF Pro (editor). Jaggies - appears to be no anti-aliasing. There are definite differences in how smooth the curves are displayed. So I am wondering what PDF viewer you are using? And how does it look when printed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Staff Lee D Posted November 19, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 19, 2019 I've exported the file to PDF and viewed in Preview (macOS) and Adobe Acrobat and zoomed in to around 800%, everything is fine. Have you tried converting the text to curves in Designer or when exporting to PDF on the More option, change the Embed fonts option to Text as Curves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damogran Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 On 11/19/2019 at 8:21 AM, Lagarto said: When you zoom in close enough, the curves look just fine. Depending on the viewer app, there might be settings that smooth out lines (e.g., Acrobat Pro has "Smooth line art" under Preferences > Page Display). If thin lines are not smoothed, it depends on display resolution how they appear when not viewed close enough, so letters like "l" and "I" often appear overly thin. When smoothened they get thicker and antialiased. I have occasionally turned off this setting (and other smoothening settings) to see possible problems in PDF output and initially mistakenly assumed this was a rasterization issue. See below: Smooth line art settng on and off. When the rendering on the right is looked far enough, the curves that look smudged here look "normal" and the thin lines overly thin. sorry for my late reply! you are exactly right. once i turn off that feature (adobe acrobat reader) everything looks fine! thank you! the reason why i export font as curves is a workaround for a different problem (you could maybe have look at if you want :-) ). if i export it with embedded fonts the result looks like "test2.jpg". in the meantime i've switched to publisher but the problem also exists in designer. interestingly the headline looks fine but every other text part is gibberish. this was proof for me that exporting in curves is a more compatible / robust way to create PDF's but maybe i'm wrong. :-) test2.afpub test2.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GarryP Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I saw this article last month: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/announcement-end-of-support-postscript-type-1-fonts.html If you have a reason to choose a particular font type for future use it might help to make your mind up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damogran Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 It's working after i removed duplicate Montserrat fontfamilies! :-) Thank you! Case closed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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