Outline fonts in PDF (I know, I know!)

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May 29, 2024
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I am having a tedious argument with an 'expert' who is making what to me are nonsensical claims about PDF. While I don't consider my PDF knowledge lacking, I rarely stray into the fog of standards, color conversion, etc. at the complex end of things, so I am not sure of a few things.

First, he claims that "All Word save as PDF actions outline the text." To me, this is sheer nonsense; I just exported several pages using different Word/MS Office modes and can't even find a "convert to outlines" option. Comments?

Also, while casting around for information, I came across this "blogspert" post:
https://updf.com/edit-pdf/pdf-to-outline/

Is it just me, or is this almost complete nonsense? especially for a 2024 post?

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Beste Antwort von try67

- Anyone who claims something like that is no "PDF expert", to be polite.

- That article is pure nonsense. Each one of the sentences in the first paragraph is totally wrong, so I didn't bother reading further.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

In French we call this kind of article "un tissu de conneries".
I'll leave you to find the translation, otherwise my post would be censored. 😉

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

try67

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Community Expert

- Anyone who claims something like that is no "PDF expert", to be polite.

- That article is pure nonsense. Each one of the sentences in the first paragraph is totally wrong, so I didn't bother reading further.

James Gifford—NitroPressAutor

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Thanks for the confirmation; I am *just* unsure enough of advanced PDF topics to have wanted to make sure I wasn't stepping in my own ignorance.

The authority in question is over in the KDP forums and is generous with his expertise, all of which seems to have been derived from pre-2010 versions of Adobe and other software. This is a world where "everyone knows you have to outline your PDFs to get around how crappy they are." Sigh.

(Also a world where InDesign is either "overkill" or "not good for anything." Sigh and sigh again.)

try67

Community Expert

This wasn't true before 2010, either. In fact, it goes against the very core idea of PDF files where the text is vector-based so it can be displayed properly on any device, independent of screen resolution, monitor size and font availability.

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