Blacked-out fonts

[TrudyS]

Hi folks, help me keep the rest of my hair.

Trying to create a PDF from a Publisher document, full of graphs and pie
charts. On two of the charts, the font comes out as black blocks once saved
to a PDF, though the others are ok.

Have tried changing fonts and reducing the length of the horizontal axis by
taking a few values out, but once saved to PDF again, the black blocks come
back. Just thopse two graphs. Don't know if it's significant that it happens
along the horizontal axis, but the fonts on the vertical axes of the others
seem fine.

Thank you SO much

Trudy

 

[LVTravel]

Are you actually saving to a PDF or printing to a PDF
printer driver? What version of Publisher are you using?
What PDF printer driver are you using if you are printing
instead of saving?

Please answer these questions so that I or others may help.

 

[TrudyS]

Hi thanks for getting to me so quickly.

I'm printing to a PDF printer driver (I tried saving to a PDF after creating
a postscript file, but it did the same thing).

Using Publisher 2003.

Saving to Primo PDF.

Many thanks
Trudy

 

[JoAnn Paules]

You don't save to PrimoPDF - you print to it.

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MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Mary Sauer]

Obviously she is printing or she wouldn't see the black blocks.

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http://office.microsoft.com/

You don't save to PrimoPDF - you print to it.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

Hi thanks for getting to me so quickly.

I'm printing to a PDF printer driver (I tried saving to a PDF after creating
a postscript file, but it did the same thing).

Using Publisher 2003.

Saving to Primo PDF.

Many thanks
Trudy

 

[Mary Sauer]

I read some of the solutions on the Primo forum. The only one near your problem
suggested print to file using Microsoft Office Document Image Writer, then print
this to the PDF.

 

[eezzell]

I am not sure it is related but I have had similar issues with black blocks
in PDFs. In my case, they were caused by transparency in my graphics that the
PDF driver does not know how to handle. The solution in my case was to open
the graphics in Adobe Photoshop Elements and replace the transparent
sections with an appropriate fill color.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I had forgotten about transparency. I usually save transparency as a picture
(.png) and re-insert into Publisher. You are probably right, it is the
transparency that is giving the poster grief.

 

[trudy.salandiak]

I have used a similar approach to remove colour from part of a document -
the problem is however that unless the image is of high resolution the text
may deteriorate. Also any anti-aliasing of the text may be lost.

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Thanks everyone.

Have tried saving to document writer, but as John so clearly points
out, though the fonts remain, quality is lost (and all the colours
went too making graphs difficult to read).

Don't understand the transparency solution as I'm not a designer. If
anyone could talk me through the steps, would appreciate it, unless
there's another way entirely. The document was originally created in
Word, I plonked it into publisher and the rest you all know.

Thanks
Trudy

 

[Mary Sauer]

Select the objects that are printing wrong, group the objects, right-click, save
as a picture, use the .png extension. Reinsert this .png into your document.
Does the PDF work properly now?

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

I have used a similar approach to remove colour from part of a document -
the problem is however that unless the image is of high resolution the text
may deteriorate. Also any anti-aliasing of the text may be lost.

--
_ _________________________________________
/ \._._ |_ _ _ /' Orpheus Internet Services
\_/| |_)| |(/_|_|_> / 'Internet for Everyone'
_______ | ___________./ http://www.orpheusinternet.co.uk

Thanks everyone.

Have tried saving to document writer, but as John so clearly points
out, though the fonts remain, quality is lost (and all the colours
went too making graphs difficult to read).

Don't understand the transparency solution as I'm not a designer. If
anyone could talk me through the steps, would appreciate it, unless
there's another way entirely. The document was originally created in
Word, I plonked it into publisher and the rest you all know.

Thanks
Trudy

 

[trudy.salandiak]

Select the objects that are printing wrong, group the objects, right-click, save
as a picture, use the .png extension. Reinsert this .png into your document.
Does the PDF work properly now?

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVPhttp://office.microsoft.com/http://msauer.mvps.org/
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Thanks everyone.

Have tried saving to document writer, but as John so clearly points
out, though the fonts remain, quality is lost (and all the colours
went too making graphs difficult to read).

Don't understand the transparency solution as I'm not a designer. If
anyone could talk me through the steps, would appreciate it, unless
there's another way entirely. The document was originally created in
Word, I plonked it into publisher and the rest you all know.

Thanks
Trudy- Hide quoted text -

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Hi folks, problem solved.

I basically changed the fonts in the original excel document (which
fed into the Word document) from arial to verdana. Saving to Primo PDF
caused one page to rotate as landscape when whole document was
portrait. Saving as Adobe PDF, both fonts and orientation were ok.

You couldn't make it up.

Thanks again
Cheers
Trudy