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Thai Font error After Exporting

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
November 25, 2024
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Hello Indesign Community,

We have been using Indesign for our work research paper for 3 years now, we have to export it to pdf and upload on our website to make it publicly available. However, we have the font error problems, in this case we mostly use fonts in Thai Language.

After exporting, everything looks perfectly fine like in the pic.

However, if we copied&pasted it elsewhere or try to use ctrl+f funtion to look for keywords. We coundn't find a single match as all the fonts are in the wrong orders and abnormal styles as attached some lines,

This causes us lots problens as we want to spread knowledge and info to all audience, but our work has never been showed up on the web browser as it cannot find the matching keywords from the engins to our works. I tried changing fonts but still have the same problems, FYI, we never have this problems when we use just Microsoft Words and English Words are not affected.

Looking forward to your suggestions, maybe some fonts setting or what kind of fonts should we look for. Thank you.

T

Thai Customs BrusselsAuthor

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Hello, this post hasn't been resolved, the issues still occur. Could some expert take a look into it one more time?

BobLevine

Community Expert

How are you viewing and testing this PDF? Doesn't everything work okay in Acrobat?

T

Thai Customs BrusselsAuthor

Known Participant

Im testing it on Acrobat, the fonts are all in wrong orders when I copied and pasted out to Notepad. Also I could not find asingle matching words by crtl F on Acrobat

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

thanks for putting up with me, sadly it's still not working for me.

Hi @Thai Customs Brussels,

Thank you for your patience. I understand how challenging this is. Since the issue persists, it’s likely a deeper Unicode rendering or font encoding problem.

Would you mind trying:

Use OpenType Fonts
Switch to OpenType Thai fonts with full Unicode support, such as "Noto Sans Thai" or "Sarabun."
Update PDF Settings
In Export > Adobe PDF (Print), check "Unicode" under the tagging options in the Advanced tab for better character mapping.
Test in Acrobat Settings
Open the PDF in Acrobat, go to Preferences > Content Editing, and enable "Use local fonts" to ensure Acrobat is reading the embedded fonts correctly.

If the problem still exists, could you share the .INDD file (with sensitive info removed) for further testing? I’ll gladly assist!

Best,
Abhishek Rao

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @Thai Customs Brussels,

Thank you for sharing the details. Could you let us know:

The version of InDesign you’re using.
Your operating system (e.g., Windows 11, macOS Ventura).
If this issue occurs with only this file or other files as well.

Additionally, could you share a screen recording of your workflow, from working on the file to exporting the PDF? This will help us better understand the issue and provide a solution.

Looking forward to your response!

Thanks,

Abhishek Rao

T

Thai Customs BrusselsAuthor

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Thanks for your reply

1. I'm using and recently updated to Version 19.5.1.

2. Windows 11

3. This happens to all files.

I attached the workflow here, You will see there are some warnings on the font JS Jindara, yet I tried changing fonts but the issues still occurs.

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