On Windows machines in our office, when I print to pdf (using pdfFactory), I have to turn off GDI+ imaging to make the fonts embed correctly. My print output results are as follows:
GDI+ imaging = ON:
- At an output setting of 300 dpi or lower, letters rasterize and become pixelated, and they cannot be selected with a text tool in the pdf.
- At an output setting of 360 dpi or greater, letters appear to be rendered as (chunky) polylines which also cannot be selected with a text tool.
GDI+ imaging = OFF:
- Text embeds correctly, regardless of resolution.
Any idea why this on-screen imaging setting affects my print output? Is this a bug?
(I believe this problem has existed at least since v2008. We've generally run VW without GDI+ imaging turned on in previous versions, since there was less functional benefit lost without it, but we'd like to take advantage of VW2012 features which require it.)
UPDATE: After reading the kbase article here, I thought I'd add that I see this with both older fonts like Arial and newer ones like Calibri.
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On Windows machines in our office, when I print to pdf (using pdfFactory), I have to turn off GDI+ imaging to make the fonts embed correctly. My print output results are as follows:
GDI+ imaging = ON:
- At an output setting of 300 dpi or lower, letters rasterize and become pixelated, and they cannot be selected with a text tool in the pdf.
- At an output setting of 360 dpi or greater, letters appear to be rendered as (chunky) polylines which also cannot be selected with a text tool.
GDI+ imaging = OFF:
- Text embeds correctly, regardless of resolution.
Any idea why this on-screen imaging setting affects my print output? Is this a bug?
(I believe this problem has existed at least since v2008. We've generally run VW without GDI+ imaging turned on in previous versions, since there was less functional benefit lost without it, but we'd like to take advantage of VW2012 features which require it.)
UPDATE: After reading the kbase article here, I thought I'd add that I see this with both older fonts like Arial and newer ones like Calibri.
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