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pdf is creating squares in text when viewed by colleague on different computer

New Here ,
Oct 02, 2017 Oct 02, 2017

I'm creating proofs in InDesign, which looks fine to me, when I check them out. But when viewed by my colleague on another computer the apostrophes are changing into small squares in the text. Screen grabs attached. Any ideas what I might have done wrong creating the pdfs, setting is at (High Quality Print), font?

Its the 'I Do' bit.

regards

Marcus

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Oct 02, 2017 Oct 02, 2017

Are you using fonts with embedding rights? How are the PDFs being viewed? Have you tried PDF/X-4?

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Oct 02, 2017 Oct 02, 2017
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Open the pdf in Acrobat and check its Document Properties (accessed with Command-D on a Mac and Control-D on a PC) Fonts section to confirm that the fonts have been embedded. If the fonts are not embedded then this problem looks like something that I have seen before with different versions of Arial (which this looks like it could be) opening the same file. Certain characters (like quotes) displayed as boxes like this when a different version of this font was used instead of the one that created the file.

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