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Font outline issue

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 29, 2020
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Hi i have problem outlining fonts in Indesign.

This is how font should look like :

This is how font looks like when i use InDesign’s transparency flattener method:

This is what happens:

If you can see the rounded parts of the font are now sharpened and cropped.

My question is why is that happening?

I cant use outline method by CTRL+SHIFT+O, because i have 40 pages document so i cant outline every page by one.

Thank you

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Don't outline fonts through InDesign.

Outline the fonts in the PDF using the PDF Preflight Tools

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Kamil 123Author

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Thank you sir, this finally helped

rob day

Community Expert

I think it’s worth keeping the outlining "requirement" in perspective. It’s a hangover from pre-PDF (1990s) workflows where missing fonts in a packaged job created huge headaches and costs—many printers have never updated their guides. I would be surprised if your PDF gets rejected if it contains embedded fonts. If there's no proof before going to press, then maybe you would not want to risk some unknown problem with embedded fonts, but then outlining could also produce some unexpected result.

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Despite how it seems, transparency flattener is NOT a tool for converting text to outlines. Choosing "Convert all text to outlines" is not a way of converting all text to outlines. Only text that needs to be converted to make transparency flattening work will be converted.

rob day

Community Expert

When you convert text to outlines you loose the font’s builtin hinting which is used for display or printing at low resolutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

But WHY are you doing this anyway?? There is no need, and if so, do it in Acrobat Pro. But again, why? I can't think of any reason to outline 40 pages, or even 1...!

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Kamil 123Author

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We are sending it to China for printing, its manual for products we ship here so they need it outlined, its required.

Also when i outline it in Acrobat it makes the same issue.

Thank you

rob day

Community Expert

But will they actually reject the job? As long as the font doesn’t have a copyright restriction it will be embedded with the PDF. You can doublecheck the font embedding via Document Properties>Fonts