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Character Substitutions

conguild
Registered: Jun 3 2011
Posts: 1

We are creating a PDF file from a Quark document. Everything looks fine in Quark. Once we print to PDF all capital "N"'s are replaced with Angstrom sign (capital A with a circle on top). Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
It appears that the font set used in Quark has the graphic appearance "N" mapped to the "Aring" character (ANSI No. 0197, HEX \x81). When the PDF is generated the character's code is sent and, in PDF, the character (correctly) depicts as "Aring". I'd play with output of PDF from Quark using different font sets or, if you can, see if you can get "N" mapped correctly to ANSI No. 078.
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A general thumb rule when output is to PDF. Always ensure characters used map properly to Unicode. Gets the correct appearance and provides charater/character strings that are searchable.
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btw - Acrobat Pro (9 & X) provide a preflight that can check for "searchable" content. Nice if that is something that is important for the delivered PDF.
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