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October 21, 2009
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Acrobat v8 doesn't like Cambria

  • October 21, 2009
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Hi,

I have started using Cambria font in all my MS Word 2007 documents. When I try print the documents to pdf using the Acrobat plug-in, I am unable to do. Problem seems to be caused by an incompatibility with Cambria font.

Current version of Acrobat Professional is 8.1.7.

MS Word's "Save As PDF" addon works. Is there a fix to the Acrobat plug-in I can use?

Interestingly, I don't have any problems with Cambria font and Excel 2007 printing to pdf.

Rael

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    7 replies

    April 20, 2011

    I have almost all the problems detailed in this forum, and none of the proposed solutions solve them.

    I am using Office 2010, and Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 Extended on Windows XP.  When I choose "Save As" and choose pdf, my Cambria Math equations are missing pieces.  When I choose "Print" and then employ the Adobe PDF Printer, The equations are replaced by a horizontal line.

    I have tried to disable "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts" in Adobe PDF Printing Preferences.  This does nothing.

    I have tried to  "Always Embed" all 5 Cambria Fonts (Cambria, Bambria-Bold, Cambria-BoldItalic, Cambria-Italic, and CambriaMath) in the Adobe PDF Settings box stemming from the "Edit" option in the preferences.  This does nothing.

    I have tried reinstalling old cambria.ttc, cambriaz.ttf, cambriab.ttf, and cambriai.ttf fonts from 2009 to my windows/fonts folder.  This does nothing.

    I have tried installing new cambria.ttc, cambriaz.ttf, cambriab.ttf, and cambriai.ttf fonts from 2011 to my windows/fonts folder.  This does nothing.

    It's impressive how there is NO solution to this problem, and I depend on creating pdfs with equations from Word.  Help?

    Inspiring
    April 20, 2011

    Have a look at the Adobe KB article

    Acrobat 9 PDFMaker and Microsoft Office 2010 | Known issues

    Can you print to the Acrobat PDF printer?

    Have you tried OpenOffice.org?

    Does your version of the cambia font have any licensing restrictions?

    Math symbols may require special handling or even a special program created to deal with them. Look at a product like LaTex.

    Participating Frequently
    April 24, 2011

    WOW!!!  You solved it, jallisy!  Thank you so much, you are my savior.  Indeed I'm still on XP, but setting the regional settings killed the Cambria Math pdf problem.  Hooray!


    I read blurbs about the equation editor issue but don't work with it myself.

    So glad it helped!

    Participant
    August 26, 2010

    I have also run into this problem.  Windows 7, MS Word 2007, up to date version of Acrobat 8 is the setup.  If I uncheck the box on the print>>properties >>rely on system fonts only;do not use document fots, it seems to work.

    I also added the fonts in the acrobat screens as per another poster's suggestions, but the conversion process stops when Acrobat sees the Cambria font.

    Another poster used old fonts - perhaps I sould pull someoff another old machine and test it out.

    Is Adobe going to fix this?

    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    August 27, 2010

    @Jim06812: Acrobat 8 is not Windows 7 compatible.

    Nothing but security fixes for any version but 9. Even version 9 fixes may be not be available for long since version 10 should be around the corner.

    pyadav05
    Participant
    July 19, 2010

    Generally

    This problem never occurs

    Can you tell me in detail exactly what happened when you did this?

    Participant
    November 24, 2009

    I had a similar problem.

    %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%

    %%[Page: 1]%%

    %%[Page: 2]%%

    %%[Page: 3]%%

    %%[Page: 4]%%

    %%[Page: 5]%%

    %%[Page: 6]%%

    %%[Page: 7]%%

    Cambria not found, using Courier.

    %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%%

    Stack:

    [85 0]

    (  )

    %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

    %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

    I was able to resolve it by changing a one of the Adobe PDF printer settings.  When you are in the print dialog, and you have selected the appropriate PDF printer, select "Properties."  In the dialog box, there should be a tab titled "Adobe PDF Settings," and it should look like the below image.  You need to un-check "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts."  I'm going to bet you created this document using XP or Vista, then upgraded to Windows 7.  I'll go further to guess the Cambria font somehow gets changed between XP/Vista and Win7.  In any case, I had a document I created using Word 2007 in Vista that I could print o a PDF.  Then, after upgrading to the RC version of Win7, I couldn't print the document to a PDF anymore.  Un-checking the box I mentioned here seems to fix the issue.  I'll reply back if I ever find a situation where this "fix" does not work.

    Participant
    November 24, 2009

    Great, this Workaround works for me! Thx

    At least this solves all my PDF related problems with Office 2007 and W7.

    Only the IE8 (32bit at least) crash when printing a PDF of a Webpage over Page Preview left.

    Participant
    November 12, 2009

    Similar problem here. I posted that also two month ago. It seems Adobe wants to sell newer releases or are they sleeping? At least their behaviour is disappointing whatever reasons they have.

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/2257354#2257354

    Participant
    November 4, 2009

    Anyone???

    Inspiring
    October 22, 2009

    I have not had a problem. You do not indicate what the problem is, but it is likely that you are not embedding the font. Check your job settings and be sure the Cambria is set to embed. You can also check a PDF and see if the font is getting embedded.

    rael07Author
    Participating Frequently
    October 22, 2009

    I simply get a popup dialog:

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    Acrobat PDFMaker
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    Adobe PDF printer failed to create the PDF file.
    ---------------------------
    OK  
    ---------------------------

    I have attached an example document