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Iracildo Luis157F
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October 24, 2022
Question

Missing PS Font in a PDF document created with FrameMaker 2020

  • October 24, 2022
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Hi,

The PS Font appears in the FrameMaker document but it does not appear in the PDF document created with Acrobat Pro DC.

The PS Font file can be printed from Windoes Fonts folder without a hassle (without Acrobat), so problem is not in the font itself. I suspect the problem is in Acrobat Distiller, because the font appears correctly in FrameMaker document!

Any help with this issue will be appeciated!

Iracildo

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    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
    Braniac
    October 27, 2022

    I was able to use the HP-17BII OTF font you provided via email to convert characters to outlines (thus allowing you to save as SVG, EPS, or other graphic format) and place the files as needed into FrameMaker. HP-17BII is the only font you supplied in OTF. I was unable to use the PBF and PBM files for anything (sorry, my font sleuthing skills are not what they were in the 90s)

    Either way, a 30-day trial of Illustrator will allow you to convert the characters to outlines and save them to individual graphic files.

     

    Not perfect, but if you can't get the font to process to PDF, it may be the next best solution.

    -Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
      K.Daube
      K.Daube
      Braniac
      October 31, 2022

      From the files HP-17BII.pfb and HP-17BII.pfm (don't know, what role the second one plays) I could create a HP-17BII.ttf with the help of FontLab Studio 5. I have attached the ttf

      FontLab shows these assignments:

      I'm late with this solution, but I was absent for some time...

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      Iracildo Luis157FAuthor
      Known Participant
      November 3, 2022

      Hi Iracildo,

      I have received Your files:

      Test_2019.pdf created from my FM file, which you renamed - does not show the key cap symbols

      Test_2020.pdf created from my FM file, which you renamed - does not show the key cap symbols

      I have now compared the PDF information of the various files - starting with my new tests:

      • Inspected with Adobe Acroabt Standard 2017
      • The font HP-17BII.ttf is installed in C:\Windows\Fonts
      • PDFs created with Save As PDF

       

      WPM$6WAB.pdf - correct display of the key cap font
      Without looking what's in the STS this was created with the following log:
      %%[ Warning: Empty job. No PDF file produced. ] %% --- obviously Distiller is involved
      Nevertheless Acrobat opend this misnamed file and showed it correctly, so that I could save it with this strange name.

      • Application: FrameMaker 16.0.4
      • PDF Producer: Acrobat Distiller 17.0 (Windows)
      • HP-17BII (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType; Encoding; Ansi
      • TimesNewRoman, Bold (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType; Encoding; Ansi

       

      Test_2020-pdfl.pdf - correct display of the key cap font

      • STS set to NOT using Distiller route
      • Application: FrameMaker 16.0.4
      • PDF Producer: Adobe PDF Library 16.0.7
      • HP-17BII (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType (CID); Encoding; Identity-H
      • TimesNewRoman, Bold (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType (CID); Encoding; Identity-H


      Test_2020-pdfl-dist.pdf - correct display of the key cap font

      • STS set to USE Distiller route
      • Application: FrameMaker 16.0.4
      • PDF Producer: Acrobat Distiller 17.0 (Windows)
      • HP-17BII (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType; Encoding; Ansi
      • TimesNewRoman, Bold (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType; Encoding; Ansi


      Test.pdf - my creation from the FM file - correct display of the key cap font

      • STS set to NOT using Distiller route
      • Application: FrameMaker 2019.0.8
      • PDF Producer: Adobe PDF Library 15.0
      • HP-17BII (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType (CID); Encoding; Identity-H
      • TimesNewRoman, Bold (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType (CID); Encoding; Identity-H

       

      Test_2019.pdf - does not show the keycaps - generated by Iracildo 

      • STS set ???
      • Application: FrameMaker 2019.0.8
      • PDF Producer: Adobe PDF Library 15.0
      • HP-17BII (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType (CID); Encoding; Identity-H
      • TimesNewRoman, Bold (Embedded Subset); Type: TrueType (CID); Encoding; Identity-H


      Security setting in the PDFs

      Everything is allowed; But if you check with the Acrobat Reader:
      - Document Assembly: Not Allowed
      - Page Extraction: Not Allowed

       

      → Can anyone (from Adobe?) tell me what's the difference between TrueType and TrueType (CID) ? And what is the Encoding Identiy-H ?

      → IMHO on the system of Iracildo something is definetely going wrong and I ask him to contact Adobe. I'd recommend using the tcssup@adobe.com e-mail address as it reaches a team dedicated to Technical Communication Suite products including FrameMaker.

       


      Hi, Klaus!

      I sent an e-mail to Adobe TCS support.

      Thank you for your help.

      Bob_Niland
      Bob_Niland
      Braniac
      October 24, 2022

      By "PS Font" do you mean:
      ◊ a "PostScript" (Type 1) font, and if so, what name?

      ◊ a font named "PS" and if so, what font file type?
      Type 1 fonts are going to become unuseable shortly, but I don't think the deadline has hit FM yet.

      I
      Iracildo Luis157FAuthor
      Known Participant
      October 25, 2022
      It is a custom Type 1 font that I created myself. Please, see the attached
      pdf file!

      Regards
      Iracildo
      Bob_Niland
      Bob_Niland
      Braniac
      October 25, 2022

      No PDF file found.

       

      Rendering path might matter too:
      Save as PDF
      Print to PDF
      Publish to PDF
      Print to .ps & Distill?

       

      Your mention of "created with Acrobat Pro DC" also raise the question of what Acrogat version.

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