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A design created in Corel Draw included fonts that were converted to curves when saved as a pdf. When the file is opened in Acrobat it looks fine but when it is saved for Word the design and colors do not hold. Everything is lines. Why is the software changing the design and converting some, but not all, of the lines to fonts? Lines in the design are also not holding their width.
This topic has been addressed alot and I see about embedding fonts but these never came into Adobe as fonts. As a designer if I convert all of my fonts to curves/lines I expect them to stay that way. I don't want them to change.
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You can't simply do that. You can't use a PDF with vectorized fonts (independent of the source) and expect it to convert correctly to Word.
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Are you calling curves vectorized fonts? They are lines that a program should not be able to assign a letter to and this is done so that anyone can open the file even if they don't have the font in their system. Fonts are commonly converted to curves so that logos and other images are not distorted by being replaced when the system doesn't have a font that was used. When I have a logo image that includes lettering that has been converted to curves I absolutely expect to be able to load that image into Acrobat without changing the image. What I do not expect is Acrobat to assign letters and because they are not the correct font make a mess out of the image when it is saved as a Word file.
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Well, I should have said “Outlined text”. And they are basically graphics.
I think you should review your DOCX Settings:
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…and it does even a better job than I expected.