I am 'printing to PDF' from an Excel document (using Acrobat 8.0 and Excel 2003). When printing, a message appears warning that ArialMT is missing, and if I wish to continue or cancel. Choosing continue the PDF is created.
The, when the created PDF is imported as a graphic into QuarkXpress it shows terribly on screen –very hard to read– however prints perfectly.
Trying to fix the problem, I embedrf in a job options of Destiller the Arial family at 100% subset. This move has not made a difference in the way the PDF looks in Quark.
What could be happening? What do I need to do? It seems like there was a replacement of a font to Type 1 postscript with a screen font missing. But I don't think we have been using Type 1 fonts in a long time. A month ago, working with the previous version of Acrobat (7), and of Quark, that was not a problem.
Thanks for you advice.
Rocío López-Bretzlaff
Edmonton, AB Canada
It looks like there are two issues here that are not neccesarily related. The first issue is the font issue. ArialTT might be required for the spreadsheet, but Excel will swap the font if it needs to. Acrobat will complain about that, but use substitution fonts in the PDF.
The onscreen rendering of the PDF in Quark is a rendering issue. I am not that familiar with it, but in InDesign, you can have the application render the PDF from the data in the file instead of using a proxy preview-which is what sounds like you are seeing.
How does it look in Acrobat or Reader?
Tim
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