Fonts in PDF created from Pages doesn't present correctly on Windows PCs

Since the problem is to be seen in Adobe Reader for Microsoft Windows, you might want to ask a forum at Adobe.com. There is no way of knowing what you mean by 'wonky.'

The principle is that the scalable glyph shapes in the font program are subset and the subset of glyph shapes is inserted with the start point and the set widths that are used for drawing ('showing') the glyphs in the graphic co-ordinate geometry that you have defined in the document setup dialogue. There are two basic ways to embed Apple SFNT-housed TrueType (which is what your Baskerville is, if it is the one that installs with the system software) in Adobe PDF, either as several font programs each with a max of 256 glyphs or as a single font program within which there are several tiled font programs. Both are basically hacks, because Adobe PDF cannot contain the Unicode and TrueType glyph run complete, the way Adobe PDF 1.3 and higher can in fact contain the ICC ColorWorld complete. But that is a monster bug matrix that is beyond this discussion - only that you need to understand what you are seeing in the dialogue for embedded fonts shown in Adobe Acrobat products. That is, the fonts are always re-encoded and are never the original, intact fonts.

Best,

Henrik Holmegaard

would-be technical writer

Actually, not only x-height glyphs with bowls on the baseline 'o', 'c', 'e' and 's are drawn ('shown') incorrectly, but ascender glyphs with a bowl on the baseline is shown 'b', 'd' are shown incorrectly, and some descender glyphs with a bowl on the baseline 'p' are, too. The PDF consumer is not interpreting the glyph metrics as intended, but you might want to determine if this is particular to some versions of Acrobat or is found in any versions.

/hh

William@NewLightStrategies wrote:

The fonts documents that I'm creating in Pages and then converting to PDF, aren't presenting properly to people using Windows PC's. Some of the fonts are "wonky".

Could you tell us whether you see the same thing using another app like TextEdit to compose your text?

I just downloaded Adober Reader 10 for Mac and found that it has the same problem with a baskerville pdf. Is that the case for you as well?

Baskerville is a Microsoft font if Apple hasn't added it on Lion. Can someone else who has Lion confirm this?

I was referring to system fonts in my post above. I found out that it should exist one Baskerville font in the /Library/Fonts, which I had but did not show up in Pages.

Here is an article on the Adobe site about MacOs X fonts

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/327/327791.html

> Here is an article on the Adobe site about MacOs X fonts

> http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/327/327791.html

Audit the font in FontBook, then follow the above suggestions for further troubleshooting of fonts - that's sound advice.

/hh

> Baskerville is a Microsoft font if Apple hasn't added it on Lion. Can someone else who has Lion confirm this?

Baskerville is a Monotype product, based on the metal drawings from the prewar period. It is bundled in Mac OS X with a TrueType font program (the program for the scalable glyph splines) and simple TrueType shaping using the obligatory CMAP Character Map table for character-glyph conversion, no support for glyph substitution.

/hh

It didn't show up in Font book either. It does now as I have added the font from the install disc.

William@NewLightStrategies wrote:

Hi Tom, yes you're correct. I've just installed Adobe Reader 10 for Mac and found the same problem.

That makes it an Adobe problem.

I see that Lion has a different version of Baskerville (7.0d4e2) than Snow Leopard (6.1d5e1), and the problem does not seem to exist with Adobe Reader for Mac with the older font. So perhaps a work around is to use that one. If you do not have it I can email you a copy (tom at bluesky dot org).