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Glyph missing in InDesign CC 2015

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July 8, 2015
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Hi,

Glyph error showing in InDesign CC 2015 for particular graphics, but not in CC 2014 for same graphics. Please help.

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Correct answer Laubender

I think, InDesign CC-2015 has some problems with some TT fonts* incuded in placed EPS files. A bug. There are some reports on this in the regular Adobe InDesign Forum. This here is the scripting forum for InDesign.

So I want to ask you: Has your problem to do with scripting?

You asked for help: The only solution right now is going back to InDesign CC-2014.

Or changing your workflow: Use PDFs instead of EPS graphics.

Uwe

* I do not remember all the details here

R-Bala-KrishnanAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Laubender,

PS-Adobe-3.1 EPSF-3.0

%ADO_DSC_Encoding: Windows Roman

%%Title: 595_2015_1221_Fig4_Print--.eps

%%Creator: Adobe Illustrator(R) 18.1

Note: if i extract glyph missing area alone and save its us separate *.eps, in that no glyph missing error.

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Laubender

Community Expert

I can confirm the bug after inspecting some sent over EPS files.

The provided EPS files are absolutely working fine with InDesign CS5.5, CS6 v8.1, CC v9.3 and CC-2014.2.

Not so with InDesign CC-2015 v11.0.1 !

I tried to change the game and saving the provided EPS files with PostScript Level 3, but hit the same problem and bug I already described in my answer #2 here.
This time ALL the fonts were missing in viewing the placed EPS. Also after exporting to PDF. Not so with printing to PostScript and distilling to PDF afterwards.

Not to my surprise, inspecting the PostScript Level 3 EPS revealed this portion of code:

%ADOBeginSubsetFont: Arial-BoldMT Initial

ct_T42Dict begin

-0.625 -0.375 2 1.008

256 array 0 1 255 {1 index exch /.notdef put} for /Arial-BoldMT

Type42DictBegin

So saving the AI files in PostScript Level 3 worsened the issue!

Not to say, that PostScript Level 2 EPS files have no issues; they have! Especially when it comes to gradients.

So I think, the bug R-Bela-Krishnan is seeing here is indeed the same one I saw with Type42 PostScript code, but in a different disguise.

Uwe

R-Bala-KrishnanAuthor

Inspiring

Hi,

ÅÐÓÆ [~ {~ Ûv ÿÿ %!PS-Adobe-3.1 EPSF-3.0

%ADO_DSC_Encoding: Windows Roman

%%Title: 382_2015_2738_Fig4_Print.eps

%%Creator: Adobe Illustrator(R) 16.0

======================

VETTNY+Helvetica nf

VETTNY+Helvetica*1 [4.65511 0 0 -4.65511 0 0 ]msf

453.148 26.9204 mo

(BCC\177CSM1\1771)

[3.10449 3.36133 3.36133 2.71777 3.36133 3.10449 3.87793 2.58789 2.71875 0 ]xsh

453.148 40.123 mo

(CCSM4)

[3.36133 3.36133 3.10449 3.87793 0 ]xsh

453.148 53.3105 mo

(CNRM\177CM5)

[3.36133 3.36035 3.36133 3.87695 2.71875 3.36133 3.87695 0 ]xsh

453.148 66.5107 mo

(CanCM4)

[3.36133 2.58789 2.58789 3.36133 3.87793 0 ]xsh

453.148 79.7021 mo

(EC\177EAR)

[3.10449 3.36133 2.71875 3.10449 3.10547 0 ]xsh

471.76 79.7021 mo

(TH)

[2.84375 0 ]xsh

453.148 92.8984 mo

(FGO)

[2.84375 3.62207 0 ]xsh

463.139 92.8984 mo

(ALS\177g2)

R-Bala-KrishnanAuthor

Inspiring

Hi,

OS: Windows 8.1

App: Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (11.0.1.105)

Font used:

Some character showing us missing glyph. Output is okay if PS-->PDF. If use export PDF output like F°°A°S−°2

Regards,

Balakrishnan R

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hm. Well, that's another bug I did not encounter yet.

Very strange indeed.

The missing characters (glyphs) do not seem to be any special characters…
Can you show some PostScript code inside the EPS where the font is encoded?

What is the creator app of the EPS?

Uwe

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Laubender

Community Expert

@R-Bala-Krishnan – and it could be well a bug only visible on OSX.

What is your version of OS?

Maybe related, at least it sounds a bit like this:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/release-note/indesign-cc-2015-release-notes.html#Known%20issues

Uwe

PS.: See also quote from "Known issues":

Quote:Known issues
On a MAC computer print output of a document does not display correctly for placed EPS type 2, 3, or 42.

L

Laubender

Correct answer

Community Expert

I think, InDesign CC-2015 has some problems with some TT fonts* incuded in placed EPS files. A bug. There are some reports on this in the regular Adobe InDesign Forum. This here is the scripting forum for InDesign.

So I want to ask you: Has your problem to do with scripting?

You asked for help: The only solution right now is going back to InDesign CC-2014.

Or changing your workflow: Use PDFs instead of EPS graphics.

Uwe

* I do not remember all the details here

L

Laubender

Community Expert

I want to add, that in the meanwhile I could rebuild the problem with a logo I built in Adobe Illustrator CC using the HelveticaNeue TTF font family on OSX 10.10.3.

This is really a severe bug and will affect many people dealing with EPS files where TrueType fonts are encoded in a Type42 wrapper PostScript code.

Here an example for the code in the EPS that is forcing the issues in CC-2015 v11.0.0 and v11.0.1:

%ADOBeginSubsetFont: HelveticaNeue Initial

ct_T42Dict begin

-0.348 -0.211 1.086 0.949

256 array 0 1 255 {1 index exch /.notdef put} for /HelveticaNeue

Type42DictBegin

What is going wrong?
Every text encoded as Type42 in EPS files placed is not visible in InDesign.
Every text encoded as Type42 in EPS files placed will not be exported to PDF.

Any workarounds?

Print to PostScript.

Distill to PDF.

I uploaded a bunch of sample files to my Dropbox account here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yoy0o5c6m5febvl/MyPlacedLogoTTF-CC-2014-2015.zip?dl=0

MyPlacedLogoTTF-CC-2014-2015.zip

[+]MyPlacedLogoTTF-CC-2014-2015

Logo created in Adobe Illustrator CC:

Containing Live Text with HelveticaNeue TTF font

MyLogo-HelveticaNeueTTF.ai

Saved as EPS from Adobe Illustrator CC:

Font included as Type42

MyLogo-HelveticaNeueTTF.eps

EPS Distilled as PDF/X1a from Distiller:

MyLogo-HelveticaNeueTTF.pdf *

All three files placed in InDesign CC-2014.2:

MyPlacedLogo-CC-2014.indd *

Exported as PDF/X4 from InDesign CC-2014.2:

MyPlacedLogo-CC-2014-Exported-PDFX4.pdf *

All three files placed in InDesign CC-2015 v11.0.1:

MyPlacedLogo-CC-2015.indd

Exported as PDF/X4 from InDesign CC-2015 v11.0.1:

MyPlacedLogo-CC-2015-Exported-PDFX4.pdf

Exported as IDML from InDesign CC-2015 v11.0.1:

MyPlacedLogo-CC-2015.idml **

Printed to PostScript from InDesign CC-2015 v11.0.1:

MyPlacedLogo-CC-2015.indd.ps

And distilled to PDF/X-1a with Distiller DC:

MyPlacedLogo-CC-2015.indd.ps.pdf *

* is showing HelveticaNeue TTF fom EPS

** when IDML is opened in InDesign CC-2014

=> No problems with HelveticaNeue TTF

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