Hello,
I've been converting WordPerfect X3 documents to Acrobat format (version 8.1.3 standard) and having bizarre typesetting problems. The font is Acrobat Opentype New Century Schoolbook STD. When I convert to .pdf, several places where normal, roman text is adjacent to bold or italic text results in typesetting problems. Specifically, the italic text often (not always) overlaps the adjacent roman text, and the bold text often appears far away from the roman text, as if a were inserted. I've checked the WP codes, and there is no difference between the code where the problems occur and where it doesn't.
Any ideas on what's happening? I assume there is some incompatibility between how WordPerfect handles fonts and how Acrobat does, but I kind of hoped Adobe would have ironed out this problem by version 8.
Just some of my natterings here but it occurs to me that your output PDF most probably was created by
Corel's Publish To > PDF "print engine." Consequently, I'd hazard a guess that what Adobe Reader/Acrobat renders
will reflect what the Corel "engine" provides.
Are blivets in the typesettng also present in an output PDF processed through Distiller/Adobe PDFMaker?
I'm playing with WP 12 here & I notice that the text I have placed as bold or as italic does not render as such
when viewing the Corel Publish To > PDF output PDF. These are present when I use Print and use "Adobe PDF"
utilizes Distiller to provide the output PDF.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to duplicate what you describe; so, some easter egg'n...
--| with italics/bold removed, do the blivets still occur?
--| auto/manually kerning at play?
--| fonts not embedded - maybe something associated with Acrobat substituting font?
--| in the Environment Settings - anything change if you de-select the default "reformate documents to the WP default printer on open"?
Have you a sample file to look at - *.wpd / *.pdf (if WP X3 *.wpd can be picked up by WP 12)?
Be well...
Be well...