carefulsmelly Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Our practice use Helvetica font for all text and dims. If a file / sheet is exported as a PDF certain letters come out incorrectly. If the font Arial is used there is no such problem. If the file / sheet is printed and then saved as a PDF (Mac OS) then there is no issue. Is there a setting or font mapping missing that causes the export function to work incorrectly? Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 In VW2011 I would go to the VW Preferences, Pick the Display tab and click the Edit Font Mapping. I would then make sure that nothing it mapped to Helvetica and that Helvetica is not mapped to anything else. Procedure in VW2008 should be similar. I don't know if this will solve the problem, but it would be my first step in trouble shooting. Second step would be to go to FontBook and make sure you only have one copy of Helvetica installed on the machine and to verify (Not sure if that is the right term) it to make sure it is not damaged. Quote Link to comment
JHEarcht Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 PDF can't embed a font if it has copyright restrictions, so it may switch to a similar substitute. Helvetica is an old proprietary font which was used on computers before PDF embedding made it possible to attach the font-drawing codes to a document. In your Font folder, right-click or control-click on the Helvetica icon and look at the font information. If it says anything about embed restrictions, then you'll have to use Arial, which is usually not restricted. Quote Link to comment
carefulsmelly Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 Thanks for the help guys, I'll try out your suggestions. Quote Link to comment
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