Bug with Arial Black Font in Publisher 2002

[M McGoodwin]

When I try to display a word with a capital W formatted in
arial black in Publisher 2002, the W is invisible in
Publisher. It is printed overlapping the following
characters when the Publisher document is converted to
Adobe Acrobat PDF format. When the formatting is changed
to Arial or Arial Narrow in Publisher, the W displays
correctly. This seems to be a bug in Publisher's version
of Arial Black font. The same problem is not found in
Word 97 Arial Black.

 

[M McGoodwin]

Yes, Font Embedding was turned on in Commercial Printing
Tools > Fonts in preparation for sending job to printer as
PDF document. I note that Arial Black says "Duplicate,
Preview Only, Subsetted" on Loading the document and that
the problem goes away if I turn off font embedding. But I
was trying to follow the advice on
http://www.accucopy.com/how2/pub/tip9.html which says to
use font families such as Arial Black rather than using
bolded Arial. I don't recall seeing the "Preview Only"
restriction before either. Not sure what has happened
here or why a common MS font like Arial Black should be
Preview Only.

Thank you.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Did you by chance apply Bold to Arial Black?

Mike

 

[°°°M°S°°Publisher°°°]

There is no issue using Arial Bold as it is an actual physical font, not a
software bolded font.

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[M McGoodwin]

I don't think so but it is a large document and Publisher
offers no search for format capability as far as I know, so
not sure what may be hidden away.

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

Yes, Font Embedding was turned on in Commercial Printing
Tools > Fonts in preparation for sending job to printer as
PDF document. I note that Arial Black says "Duplicate,
Preview Only, Subsetted" on Loading the document and that
the problem goes away if I turn off font embedding. But I
was trying to follow the advice on
http://www.accucopy.com/how2/pub/tip9.html which says to
use font families such as Arial Black rather than using
bolded Arial.

Disable Font Embedding and see if the problem desists.

 

[M McGoodwin]

Well, like I mention, the faulty display of letters went
away when I turned font embedding off. But the Arial
Black font has become "Preview Only", which is spurious.
This leaves me unable to prepare a reliable packet with
embedded fonts for the commercial printer--one of the big
WYSIWYG selling points of Publisher I thought.

I sure don't want the commercial printer to have to
substitute or synthesize fonts that will not have the same
metrics and Publisher True Type fonts are supposed to be
fully licensed. There must be some corruption of the
Arial Black installation in Publisher since it is not
affected in Word.

My current workaround is to print this document to a PDF
in Adobe Distiller, which apparently does embed the fonts
properly and does display and print Arial Black correctly,
even when View > Use Local Fonts is turned off.

I'm wondering if I should have gone with PageMaker....

Thank you,

MCM