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Word2007 and PDFmaker Font issue..Help

Nvidia256
Registered: Aug 24 2008
Posts: 3

I converted My 181 Page Word Document to PDF through the PDFmaker(acrobat 9 pro)embeded into word2007. Everything Went smooth almost a 1:1 replica.

The one issue I am having is that I noticed the PDFmaker did not convert my Font properly, as I will explain in more detail below.

My document has a total of 4 different fonts used. Below are the 2 fonts, 1 of which did not convert properly.

PalladioURWTOT-Medium
PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic (conversion Problem)
(side note these are open type fonts)

You see the main text used in my document is "PalladioURWTOT-Medium" all the text files in that font came out 100% fine the problem occurs with the Italicize ones. in M$ Word when you want to Italicize that font you click the "Italic icon". When you do this word uses the "PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic" font . So in other words technically there are 2 different fonts, as the Italicize version gives the font a very different look cause it's using a specific font.

Now here is where the problem lies when I converted the PDF, it seems the PDF maker looked at all the "PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic" fonts and instead made them "PalladioURWTOT-Medium" and then adobe went and slanted the font trying to iItalicize it. It therefore does not look at all like the original "PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic" and now I am at a loss as to what I can do in order to get Acrobat to recognize this.

Here is what I assume is happing. I noticed in word when I have a the Font selected in it says "PalladioURWTOT-Medium" as the selected font, of course as you can see below i have the Italic icon selected as well. Word2007 does not allow you to selected the actual name PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic since it already understands that when you hit the icon that it will automatically use the italic font. Below is this example from WORD2007:

[img]http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/2083/word2007mq2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5994/fonttmx7.png[/img]

here is an example of the 2 fonts used and what supposedly happened

[img]http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5485/conversionchartev8.png[/img]

ANy help or suggestions would be very much appreciated as this Issue has really cause some serious problems for me.

PS. Using the PDF printer works 100%, however the additional editing that is required to be done in pdf can only be possible with PDFmaker since it gives the capabability of using advance editing.

abhigyan
Expert
Registered: Nov 29 2007
Posts: 223
I tried this with another OpenType font but that worked correctly. Can you double check that the MediumItalic variant is indeed installed on your C:\windows\fonts folder. Also, what other variants of this font do you have installed?
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Are you running Word 2007 on XP? If so, this might be related to an issue in Word that was corrected in a Hotfix. Check out [url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936678/en-us]"A PDF file that you create in Word 2007 uses the default font instead of the font that you specified in Windows XP"[/url] for more information.
This Hotfix was also included in the XP SP3 update.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.