Font from PPT to PDF is converting text outlines to fill

[sarar78869016]

Hi,

Hope someone can help. It's a bit confusing, so I'll try my best to explain as best I can.

Image A is a page I created in PPT months ago. The image is of when I saved it as a PDF. The "January" text is a text outline with no fill. It saved perfectly.

Image B is the revised page I am doing (just changing dates). When I go to save as a PDF it is filling the text in even though I haven't touched that text at all.

Image C shows that for some reason, even if I go to edit in PDF it is showing the text now as an image, unable to be edited. Previously I could edit all the text in the PDF.

I thought maybe it was the font, so I tried a different font making it no fill with black outline. Saved as a PDF and the same thing happened. It filled the text and made it an image.

Does anyone know why it is doing this? I have hundereds of pages to update, but really need the PDF to show the text in outline. I don't understand, has something been updated and changed the way PPT saves to PDF with outline text? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

[Eric Dumas]

Hi,

1.  from File > Properties>Font tab, can you indicate if teh font used is a Type1, TTF or OTF ?
2. Can you let us know what steps and settings you use to create the pdf?

[sarar78869016]

Hi,

Both fonts I used were OTF. But it can't be the font as I previously saved it as a PDF with no issue. Both are fonts I regularly use in PPT and PDF.

To create the PDF I am going File > Save  As > PDF (*.pdf) the same as I have always done.

My main issue is that this has literally just changed. Only a few days ago I was still able to save outline text in a ppt as a pdf with no fill. It literally seems to have changed overnight but I don't know why.

Many thanks

[Hartmutundich]

Hi,

were you able to solve it?
I'm experiencing the exact same thing and I can't find out how to solve it.

Many thanks!

[Abambo]

Create a test file and share the PDF here. An example is worth more than 1000 words.

[Hartmutundich]

Yes, sure.

I uploaded the PDF, where it shows the font color has changed to black, and a screenshot of the PowerPoint slide, where it shows the font color as orange.

The way I saved the PDF was "save as PDF" - this is when the problem occurs.

I noticed that the result is different when I print it with "Microsoft print as PDF" - then the font doesn't change color.

[Abambo]

Save as PDF and printing to the Microsoft PDF virtual printer are under the responsibility of Microsoft. Adobe has nothing to do with that.

I would need to see the PowerPoint file, too, as there are some pretty ugly conversations going on.