Font scrambled in PDF export

[Thomahawk]

Mac Monterey, Publisher 2.0.4

Century Gothic, working perfectly fine in publisher. PDF exported (standard "for Print" setting) the font is totally scrambled. See attached sceenshot and test documents.

I copy the text frame over to Designer and export a PDF there, font stays perfectly fine in that PDF.

Ohne Titel.afpub Ohne Titel.pdf

[MikeTO]

You should compare your PDF settings for Designer versus Publisher. It's likely that you inadvertently changed something in the export window.

Cheers

[kenmcd]

3 hours ago, Thomahawk said:

Century Gothic, working perfectly fine in publisher. PDF exported (standard "for Print" setting) the font is totally scrambled. See attached sceenshot and test documents.

Opened your doc in APublisher, exported to PDF, looks fine.
Opened your doc in ADesigner, exported to PDF, looks fine.

May be a corrupted font cache issue - clear your font cache.

Often when the corrupted text looks like text on top of other text, on Windows, this can often be caused by having multiple copies of a font file in the Windows Fonts folders (from installing multiple copies). Not sure if this affects Macs, but check. Only have one version installed (and no OTF and TTF of the same fonts).

[Thomahawk]

no, not really. I have that on different computers and different documents.

[kenmcd]

Do you have Microsoft Office for Mac installed on your computer?

And what version of the font are you using?

[Thomahawk]

Still the same Problem, only with Century Gothic. Changing over to AvantGarde, no problem. The strange thing is, when I take those Century Gothic text blocks over to Designer and export from there, the PDF is fine. The problem only occurs from Publisher export.

And no, not an export setting problem. Happens in any standard setting.

 

 

[Thomahawk]

On 2/28/2023 at 10:27 PM, kenmcd said:

Do you have Microsoft Office for Mac installed on your computer?

And what version of the font are you using?

monotype V 1.00

[kenmcd]

13 hours ago, Thomahawk said:

monotype V 1.00

Is that the MS Office v1.00, 1992, TTF, old original TrueType format (not OpenType-TT)?
Just R/I/B/BI (four fonts).
Or is it the directly from Monotype, v1.00, 2020, OTF format (OpenType-PS)?
Century Gothic Paneuropean W1G - 14 fonts - Thin thru Black (R&I).
Plus 2 variable fonts (R&I).
Having the static fonts and the variable fonts installed at the same time can cause issues.

There are also the old Std v1.000 (AFF11) and Pro v1.003 versions (2011), OTF.

There are a number of versions out there for download which have broken name fields which can cause font cache corruption issues.

I have all of the versions above (and more).
Would have to see your actual fonts to see if they are the problem.

 

[SallijaneG]

Should I post my similar problem here or as a new topic?  Early 2015 Mac, 11.7.6 Big Sur.  Publisher 2.1, a file updated from last year’s issue of the same newsletter, when printing the Zilla Slab font is partly corrupted—strange characters added over and between words; curly brackets, underscores, hyphens, ampersands, double brackets, pilcrows, ligatures (ffi, fl, etc.).  Cooper Hewitt text on same page is clean.  I copied a paragraph of Zilla Slab into Libre Office, exported it as a graphic, and the text is clean.  Attaching samples here.

News&Views23Summer.pg2.pdf