Trouble with Lato Light font not generating properly in PDF

Report · Jun 11, 2021

I have published a PDF from FM book that uses the Lato Light font. The Lato Light font appears heavier than the regular Lato. When I query within Acrobat, it believes the font is LatoLight (all one word).

Other google searching has indicated this is becuase my machine does not have the Lato Light font installed or its not set to use local fonts, etc.None of these work,

I also have this content in a Word document and it is published to pdf and the same Acrobat reader fine. I am also able to publish FM content to REsponsive HTML5 and the font is fine as well.

Only when publishing FrameMaker to PDFdoes it come out looking like bolded Lato.

I am about to uninstall all Lato fonts from my machine. Reboot. REinstall fonts and see what happens.

But since Word to PDF and frameamker to HTML5 works fine and its only FrameMaker to PDF I assume it's a FrameMaker issue.

Using FM 2020.

P.S. in my searching I found a few past posts about "light" fonts being of issue for FrameMaker publishing and the only resolutions were to reinstall the fonts from a different source or stop using that font. About to abandon using Lato Light. WHich I don't particularly like for product user guides, but it's our new brand.

Report · Jun 11, 2021

I've checked my fonts and says Installable. Is that how it should appear?

THe other is how it appears in the PDF doc properties. Not sure what to fix.

Report · Jun 13, 2021

I had the same issue with this font yesterday when updating my resume, not in Framemaker but in Acrobat pro.

Some of them were light and some were dark,

This is going to sound stupid, but check that its not set to "BOLD" in the paragraph designer.

Report · Jun 15, 2021

Hi

Could you verify if your fonts are loaded properly in FrameMaker2020 :

Check your font from paragraph Designer or if you have character style then Character Designer.
You can also check for missing fonts from the Font panel (View-Panels-Fonts).

If you think this is some issue with FM then you can either DM me a sample file or log a tracker issue via "https://tracker.adobe.com/".

Thanks

Pulkit Nagpal