Member ahy… Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Oops, so it's the problem that Word cann't embed CFF flavored OpenType. Sad to learn it :( Link to comment
Member but… Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Did I discover a workaround? In Word 2010, after you select save as PDF, click the Options button and uncheck the option "Bitmap text when fonts may not be embedded" (below, it is still checked) Here's how the text looks in Word 2010: Here's a save as PDF using the default options. Word tries to convert the fonts to bitmap and it gets garbled. Here's a save as PDF using the new options: Link to comment
Member Igo… Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I know this may be a foolish question, but just to be sure: did you open this PDF in a computer without Minion and Alix installed? Link to comment
Member but… Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 See for yourself. I posted the two PDFs that were the source of the screenshots above. http://typographyforlawyers.com/pdf/pdftest-1.pdfhttp://typographyforlawyers.com/pdf/pdftest-2.pdf Link to comment
Member Igo… Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Not working. PDFTest-1 shows rasterized type: PDFTest-2 does not embed the fonts: Link to comment
Member J.… Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 butterick, I am seeing an apples to oranges comparison. Reading this thread, the issue is: can OpenType Postscript flavor (CFF) fonts be made into a PDF, in Word 2010, without rasterization? The rasterization causes some quality problems. It seems that you are answering a different question: can non-embeddible fonts be used (rasterized) to make a PDF? The result (yes) is interesting, but not really the original question. Also, I'm interested to know if Microsoft Word Service Pack 1 changed anything with regard to the original question, if anyone knows. Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I am pretty sure this limitation was not addressed in SP1. Link to comment
Member but… Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Not working. Aha. Then the answer to my question is no, I did not discover a workaround. Thanks for testing it. Link to comment
Member J.… Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Sii Daniels, thanks for the info. I'll keep a good thought for future versions. Link to comment
Member wor… Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I think at long last I've come across a fix to this situation. It involves (thankfully) only Word itself and Acrobat... Check out this link: http://wordtopdfimage.blogspot.com/2012/02/preserve-image-quality-when-saving-from.html Includes comparative screenshots which was cool... Link to comment
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