Preview Issue with PDF

I definitely have Calibri - came with Office for Mac and is the font I have set my "normal" style to use (plus my default e-mail font, etc.). I have checked in FontBook and Calibri is there, no duplicate fonts and I validated the font and it is all fine (regular, italic, bold, bold italic). My Calibri works fine in PDF's because I create a fair number of documents in Word (for Mac) and "print" them to PDF and Calibri is the main font I use.

What is weird is that the document has the font embedded anyway (at least the subset it needs), yet when Adobe Reader displays the document the fonts look nothing like Calibri.

I can open the file fine in Photoshop - but as with Reader, the font it uses is not Calibri.

Also, Preview done snot see the "blocks" where the text should be as text - as I cannot select them with the text cursor but only with the select (image/rectangle) tool. I can't see a way to attach an image to a port here but the blocks I get a like lines of giant black pixels (rectangles the size of a character) where the text should be, some fully black, then fading to lighter greys across the word (some starting black, fading to light grey, others starting light grey building to black, a few all solid black). Sorry for the lousy description.

I have double checked a PDF I created (using Word/Office for Mac) and it had two embedded subset fonts, Calibri and Calibri bold and it displays fine in both Preview and Reader and the font is very different from that Reader/Photoshop show for the problem document. Although in my document the "encoding" was set to "built-in" whilst the problem document has encoding set to "ansi"

Many thanks for your attention to my question.

Regards
Ian

Message was edited by: DeimosL - added a bit more info about the "encoding"

Message was edited by: DeimosL

I do have Adobe Reader (free) installed and it can open the document but the font it uses is defiantly not Calibri (as listed as the embedded font in the "problem document").

I also have Photoshop CS3 installed and that opens the document same as Reader (i.e. using the "wrong font").

Interesting comment about the Mac PDF support (as I am unaware of where the interpretation of the PDF takes place under OS X). I had also noticed that Finder preview and Quick view also show the same as Preview (i.e. blocks rather than characters).

Ian

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There is another one that is a bit more clever, instead of the PDF content it just displays an ad for Acrobat Reader.
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A good way to drive people away from PDF. They sort of remind everybody that it is not an open standard but owned and under the control of Adobe and Adobe intend to make as much profit from it as possible. Given its extensive use (particularly in business), start sending PDFs to a customer who can only see an ad for Acrobat Reader and people will soon start finding alternatives.

Ian

Not for me (I tried trashing all the .plist files with "preview" in their name - although some looked not relevant). Starting with no Preview .plist files and exactly the same blocky display.

Thanks for the idea.

Ian