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Jason L-S
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March 13, 2013
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FrameMaker 10 Corrupts Searchable Text in SVG Files

  • March 13, 2013
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I notice that a font issue occurs with SVG files in FrameMaker 10.0.2.419 saved as PDF.

1. Open a FrameMaker document that contains SVG images. The SVG images contain text. Text is in Arial font.

2. Save FrameMaker file as PDF.

3. Search PDF file for instances of words contained in SVG images. Text not found. Text is rendered correctly. But upon inspection, when copied and pasted into NotePad, text is rendered as squares:       .  Acrobat properties show that the original font is ArialMT.

Things I already tried:

Font embedding settings in Distiller. No effect.

Using File > Print in FrameMaker instead of Save as PDF. No effect.

Using a different version of Distiller. No effect.

Using a printer instead of Distiller and printing a post-script file. No effect.

It seems instead to be an issue with the FrameMaker patch that updated the version to 10.0.2.419. Prior to that patch, things seemed to work correctly. And things seem to work correctly in FrameMaker 8.

Thanks,

Jason

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    March 14, 2013

    Jason,

    Do you have the Adobe PDF printer instance as your default printer?

    Do you actually have the Arial font installed and told Distiller where it's located (Settings > Font Locations)?

    Exacly which joboptions have you used?

    Have you explicitly set the ArialMT font to the "Never Embed" options list?

    Did you actually multiple versions of Distiller on the same machine?? This can result in a totally hosed installation for creating PDFs.

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    Jason L-SAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 14, 2013

    Arnis,

    See my inline replies below:

    Do you have the Adobe PDF printer instance as your default printer?

    --Yes

    Do you actually have the Arial font installed and told Distiller where it's located (Settings > Font Locations)?

    --Yes I have Arial in C:\Windows\Fonts. But I can't find "ArialMT."

    Exacly which joboptions have you used?

    --Standard

    Have you explicitly set the ArialMT font to the "Never Embed" options list?

    --Yes. I've tried both. Never Embed and Always Embed. Neither works.

    Did you actually multiple versions of Distiller on the same machine?? This can result in a totally hosed installation for creating PDFs.

    --No. I used two different machines.

    Thanks for your help.

    Jason

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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    March 14, 2013

    Have you run Windows update recently? A couple of months back, there was

    a Windows update that broke some PostScript fonts. Arial MT is the PS

    version of Arial. Microsoft has since released a fixed version of the

    update. Perhaps you didn't download it yet.

    You might also look to see if you've chosen the right font. On my

    Windows 7 computer, the TrueType version of the font shows as Arial and

    the PostScript version shows as Arial MT. So if you only see Arial

    installed in Windows\Fonts, you probably don't have Arial MT installed.

    So it can't embed in a PDF.

    Also, are you sure the text in your SWF is actually a font and not

    glyphs that have been converted to vector outlines? If they are

    outlines, they are graphics, not text, and cannot be searched.

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