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Swashes not printing?

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November 16, 2024
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I have a font with swashes (image below,) and when I export it to PDF they appear just fine. However, when I print, they get cut off as though they are at the edge of a box. But the text box covers the entire page. The frame around it is the bottom layer, and locked. It works when I outline my type, but outlining type changes the spacing a bit, and given that this has a long of chapters I really do not want to have to go through and manually do that. Has anyone else run into this? I'm baffled

This is how it looks in ID and PDFs:

and this is how it prints:

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A.E.D.Author

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Edit, clarifying: when I print directly from InDesign the swashes break. They do appear on PDF export, but I need to print from ID.

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Eugene Tyson

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As per @Peter Spier - acrobat is better - if you're exporting to PDF print from there.

No idea why it's not working directly from InDesign

What printer is it? What print settings are you using? What options do you have?
Hard to know

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Brother HDL8360. Duplex, high quality settings. But I've tested with a couple others and this seems to happen with every font whose swashes go a certain area out, so I think it has to be an issue with indesign font processing somehow

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Eugene Tyson

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Open your pdf file in Acrobat Pro.

Find the Preflight.

In the Preflight Dialogue Box search for Outlines and select the Convert Fonts to Outlines Preflight

This will convert all the fonts to outlines in the PDF only (InDesign file will still be editable)

See if it prints ok now.

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It always printed fine from PDF, it's InDesign that I can't print from--and I need to beacuse I'm using the booklet feature 😞

Peter Spier

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You should be able to print a booklet from Acrobat using the PDF and it should give better results than using Print Booklet froom InDesign.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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Can you share a sample PDF?

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Here's the page I posted an image of!

Emma_page.pdf

Willi Adelberger

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Can you move the text to the top layer above the frame and expand the text frame to the maximum?

Export as PDF/X-4

Don't makes outlones of the text.

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A.E.D.Author

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It's already on the top layer, and the text frame is to the margins, if that's what you're referring to. Unfortunately exporting to PDF doesn't really help because I need to print from ID.

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