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Do you know how to get greek characters to display correct in a pdf correctly using the Safari Browser

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July 17, 2026
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Hello, I wonder if you can help? I am using Adobe FrameMaker 2022 to create my Technical reports which uses a lot of greek symbols and then creating a pdf using Adobe Acrobat (64 bit). I use to add WPMathA in previous reports, but I see that this font is no longer to be used and I have been replaced WPMath A with Symbol font.
The issue I am currently having in the Technical reports is, once I generated the FM file into a pdf and view in the Safari browser, the majority of the greek characters that I use from the Equation palette in FrameMaker is not displaying correctly.

In Chrome and Edge, the greek characters display fine.
Is there a way to get the greek characters to display correctly using the Mac browser Safari please. Thank you.

Correct answer Jeff_Coatsworth

Sounds like Safari has a hard time figuring out fonts in PDFs if the font is unfamiliar. Google says to try to create PDFs that are set to High Quality and embed the fonts in them. How are you creating the PDFs out of FM?

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kenlyn_7988Author

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Thank you, Jeff. I have changed the setting in Acrobat Distiller to High Quality and embedded the font and this has worked. I would select ‘File’ - ‘Save As Pdf’.

Bob_Niland

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kenlyn: …once I generated the FM file into a pdf and view in the Safari browser, the majority of the greek characters that I use from the Equation palette in FrameMaker is not displaying correctly.

How are they presenting?

And do you have an option to use an external MathML editor to create them?
The FM Equation feature is getting more than a bit creaky.

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kenlyn_7988Author

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Hi Bob, the equations are not displaying correctly for me. Thank you. I will look into MathML editor in due course. Jeff suggestion worked for me.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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Where are you getting the Symbol font under Windows? Adobe has a Symbol font available but it is simply named “Symbol” and it may be conflicting with the Mac default Symbol font.

There is an OpenType version of Symbol (Symbol Std) available for purchase from Adobe that won’t conflict with the Mac version.

You could try a different font, such as Google’s Noto Sans Math. I would set it to Always Embed in Distiller.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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kenlyn_7988Author

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Thank you Dave. I used the Symbol Std font from Adobe. I will look into the Google’s ‘Noto Sans Math’ font that you mentioned.

Barb Binder

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Safari’s built-in PDF viewer uses Apple’s native rendering engine, which frequently struggles to display non-English characters if the PDF creator didn't fully embed the correct fonts (such as Unicode or Symbol fonts) into the document. And the solution I’m seeing online is the same thing Jeff already mentioned—use the High Quality preset to fully embed the fonts.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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kenlyn_7988Author

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Thank you, Barb for the info. It worked what Jeff had suggested.

Jeff_Coatsworth

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Sounds like Safari has a hard time figuring out fonts in PDFs if the font is unfamiliar. Google says to try to create PDFs that are set to High Quality and embed the fonts in them. How are you creating the PDFs out of FM?

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