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Fix bullet and quote rendering in PDFs from FrameMaker
Authored by: stefanr on Sep 05, '03 12:10:31PM

I noticed a similar problem with quotes when translating a postscript document to a PDF with the ps2pdf converter from all the LaTeX distributions I tried.

Maybe these are related. I posted the bug in the ghostscript bug report (you can get the details here: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686886)

It seems this is a problem with a Microsoft font that do not behave correctly for the pdf interpreter. The only application I know that can correctly convert files to PDF is Adobe Acrobat.



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Fix bullet and quote rendering in PDFs from FrameMaker
Authored by: david-bo on Sep 05, '03 04:47:41PM

Framemaker uses Distiller for its pdf-creation so using Acrobat is no workaround for this situation. However, I use FM6 and I have never seen this issue.

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Fix bullet and quote rendering in PDFs from FrameMaker
Authored by: gtomorrow on Sep 06, '03 04:36:13AM

Same problem, different software. I'm beginning to think that Microsoft Core Web Fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, etc.) map to Windows font mapping. Not only do I get the Yen symbol instead of a bullet, but all accented european characters just don't print, as well as "€". I was laying blame on the RIP server we use (a Win2k box), but after reading this thread...well, I'm not so sure.

Surely some genius out there can shed some light on this problem.



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Fix bullet and quote rendering in PDFs from FrameMaker
Authored by: crunchyfrog on Sep 06, '03 10:17:25PM

This is a old problem that has plagued Classic for some time. The versions of Arial and Times New Roman (MSFonts) that were installed by just about anything but espicially IE were faulty in that they used different character mapping to every other mac font. As postscript level 3 printers became available, uses started noticing that bullet points would print as Yen symbols and quotes woudl not print at all. Microsoft did "fix" this problem by making updated versions available on their website (since removed I think) - btw they didn't fix the character encoding, they just changed the internal font name which forced the font to be downloaded to the printer (or RIP which is all that distiller is) instead of using the font that is already installed in the RIP

If you "get Info" on the font files Arial should be version 2.9 and Time New Roman 2.91 - these fonts will be in the Classic System Folder.



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Fix bullet and quote rendering in PDFs from FrameMaker
Authored by: jared thornton on Nov 23, '03 09:45:58AM

we have experienced this problem. we go postscript with cuctomer files. genarally created on the pc. we then rip them from mac. we have found that by replacing the customer's new times roman with new times romanps, the problems are eliminated. jared



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