Fonts in Publisher 2003 and .pdfs

[NNAdverts]

I manage adverts for a local pro bono newspaper. Most of the time
advertisers email me copy, and I create the ad in Publisher 2003, then
turn it into a .pdf before forwarding it to the editor. Recently an
advertiser sent me some copy, specifying Arial as the default font. He
sent a graphic of his logo, which wouldn't come out in grayscale, so I
recreated it in Century Gothic - the closest I could get to the
appearance of the logo. I converted the Publisher file into a .pdf,
forwarded it to the editor and thought no more about it.
The printer couldn't include the ad because there was an invalid font
in it, which turned out to be 'SymbolOOEnc'. I looked in the .pdf
properties>fonts, and there was 'SymbolOOEnc' alongside Arial and
Century Gothic. I went back to the Publisher file and Tools
menu>Commercial Printing Tools>Fonts, and there was Symbol. Can anyone
explain why, and what I need to do to ensure this doesn't happen in
future?

I've looked carefully at the Publisher document and there's nothing
there which uses Symbol as a font - at least as far as I can see!

Is is simply a question of ticking the box in Tools menu>Commercial
Printing Tools>Fonts to embed TrueType fonts when saving a
publication?

Chris

 

[Mary Sauer]

I did a search for your term *SymbolOOEnc*. I received exactly 7 hits in Google.
Five hits was a PDF document. Makes me think it is an Acrobat issue. Make sure
you have *Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" checked in the printer properties.
I just now printed a PDF file using Arial and Times New Roman and Century Gothic
without your issue.

 

[LVTravel]

I manage adverts for a local pro bono newspaper. Most of the time
advertisers email me copy, and I create the ad in Publisher 2003, then
turn it into a .pdf before forwarding it to the editor. Recently an
advertiser sent me some copy, specifying Arial as the default font. He
sent a graphic of his logo, which wouldn't come out in grayscale, so I
recreated it in Century Gothic - the closest I could get to the
appearance of the logo. I converted the Publisher file into a .pdf,
forwarded it to the editor and thought no more about it.
The printer couldn't include the ad because there was an invalid font
in it, which turned out to be 'SymbolOOEnc'. I looked in the .pdf
properties>fonts, and there was 'SymbolOOEnc' alongside Arial and
Century Gothic. I went back to the Publisher file and Tools
menu>Commercial Printing Tools>Fonts, and there was Symbol. Can anyone
explain why, and what I need to do to ensure this doesn't happen in
future?

I've looked carefully at the Publisher document and there's nothing
there which uses Symbol as a font - at least as far as I can see!

Is is simply a question of ticking the box in Tools menu>Commercial
Printing Tools>Fonts to embed TrueType fonts when saving a
publication?

Chris

Just for clarification, what image format (defined by the extension of the
filename) was the logo sent to you in?

If it was a non-bitmap, vector graphic, (EPS, WMF, etc.) any font type
information within that image is passed on to the printing program, which in
your case is Publisher to create the PDF. If the logo creator used a
specific symbol font to create a portion of the logo this could have been
the issue.

At work, if I place my school's logo, created in Corel Draw and converted to
an EPS (encapsulated Postscript) and then put that image into the document
of a Word, PowerPoint or Publisher file I also have to have the font used
for the lettering of the logo installed on the final computer used to print
or display the document. For that reason I have converted the vector
graphic EPS file into a series of different sized bitmaps so I can get a
clean resize.

If it is a bitmap (BMP, JPG, GIF, etc.) there should have been no issue of
the font type being transmitted in the logo.

Hope this helps, let us know.