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VW 2019 Publishing PDF problem - fonts garbled


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When I publish a pdf set of drawings then print them out on my printer all of the text is garbled.  Am running VW 2019 with latest up to date service pack and my HP 7740 print driver is is also up to date, I am on a new macbook pro running High Sierra 10.13.6.  When I use the 'file' 'export' 'export to PDF' command and check the 'rasterize text' option the text then prints just fine.  Using the 'Publish' sommand it does not give me that option and text always garbles.  Attached are pics.  The first is of the on-screen pdf as generated by VW.  The next is the garbled text print out using the 'Publish' command and the third is using PDF Export command.

 

I recently switched from VW2013 and never had this problem.  I opened up some old PDFs that were genereated from VW2013 and the problem does not exist.  In v2013 there  was no 'Publish' option, we had to use 'export PDF Batch'.

 

Thanks in advance

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Edited by Kerschbaumer
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The image sizes of the screen caps you linked are very small (at least for me), but similar issues with PDFs with garbled text have been reported before. (I thought it had been fixed as of Vw2019, but perhaps not).

 

Maybe one of these threads below might help you find a solution other than having to ‘rasterize text’:

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/44624-pdfs-printing-in-gibberish/

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/51085-font-mapping-when-exporting-fonts-on-pdf-become-pixelated/

 

And a KB article on how to validate fonts on macOS:

 

Edited by rDesign
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Thanks rDesign

Have read through and tried all suggestions you posted.  I use Arial font for everything.  I did print from Preview and it worked fine.  I also did the font validation and there was a yellow warning for it which I corrected by resetting default fonts and now all green light.  Interesting when I change the font to Courier it works fine.  When I print from Adobe Reader and a very old version of Acrobat Pro they both are garbled.  Only thing I can think of is that there something that VW2019 does when it generates the pdf that Adobe products dont like in the font......Have pent half the day and half my ink trying to sort this out....

 

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