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

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".

What I'm doing is creating documents in Pages and then creating PDF's either by Print, save as PDF or Share, Export, PDF.

On my MacBook and iPad the PDFs are perfect. However when viewed on Windows, they are wonky. Not all of the document/fonts are messed up. An example of a font that appears wonky, is Baskerville.

I've used Adobe Reader to check whether the fonts appear embedded, and they seem to be there.

This is a huge problem for me because, at the moment, all documents I'm sending to clients who use Windows, are looking really unprofessional.

Any suggestions or solutions?

Anyone else seen this?

Pages-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 4, 2011 9:25 PM

18 replies

fruhulda

Level 6

15,161 points

Nov 6, 2011 9:41 PM in response to William@NewLightStrategies

You can always tell Apple what you found. http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Feb 15, 2014 4:44 PM in response to William@NewLightStrategies

Same wonky text if using Microsoft Word for Mac and you attempt to save to pdf. Either via save, or by printing to pdf. I have to go to the office store to save to pdf, or send my word document to my daughter to save on her PC--she converts to pdf and sends it back, and all is well. Pain in the neck workaround.

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

115,970 points

Feb 15, 2014 5:02 PM in response to applekids

applekids wrote:

Same wonky text if using Microsoft Word for Mac and you attempt to save to pdf.

Are you talking about the Baskerville font? What version of Word and OS X?

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