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Unwanted bold fonts when converting AI to pdf

Community Beginner ,
Aug 10, 2008 Aug 10, 2008

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When converting fonts to outlines in Ai(cs3) and then saving it as a pdf (high quality print) the letter "l" appears to be bold in pdf file. Does this affect my printwork? or is a blitch in the pdf viewer or else?.
I've tried converting directly from illustrator and through distiller, both the same results.
Anybody?

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Aug 13, 2014 Aug 13, 2014

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The following works but it's a headache:

It seems that "san serif" fonts are the biggest culprit of this issue. Rather than exporting typography from Illustrator it's best if you use InDesign for all font usage. Meaning I usually design tag lines for logos in Illustrator than turning the text into outlines. This works if you aren't putting the file through InDesign. The easiest way I found to solve this issue is to pen tool out the area where the text on the illustrator image is, then duplicate the text in indesign using a text box.

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New Here ,
Jul 28, 2016 Jul 28, 2016

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Dear Ton,

Thank you for your quick reply.

The reason I convert the text to curves is simply because when I print the document that is provided, in certain places and pages the fonts appear weird, they change to symbols or something for some reason. Probably because they aren't embedded into the document by the client.

What's the solution in that case?

Looking forwards to your best advice.

Thanks.

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Explorer ,
Mar 09, 2021 Mar 09, 2021

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We found the solution to this by complete accident.

 

It seems 'l's and some other rectangular sans serif letters are not recognised properly on saving to pdf if you have outlined the font in illustrator.

The soloution is to open the illstrator file with outlined fonts, and add extra anchor points to your vertical lines on the 'l' letter (between the corner points) this makes no difference of course to the shape, but once saved and converted to pdf, or imported into indesign then saved to pdf, the width of the letter 'l' seems to be recognised correctly.

Hope this helps

Its a glitch I think...

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