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Paul Lancaster
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Date Joined Jun 2002
Total Posts : 5
| Posted 6/2/2002 5:17 AM (GMT -6) |   |
We are currently compiling a major book, where the
publisher in the past has accepted PageMaker
documents, they now want pdf files, however in
preparing some foreign language material there are
instances where the Option Space is used to place 2
syllables under 1 note, all looks good in Finale and in
PageMaker, but yet in Adobe Acrobat this appears as a
box....any one any ideas...thanks....
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migman
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Date Joined Apr 2000
Total Posts : 2432
| Posted 6/2/2002 6:37 AM (GMT -6) | |
I think you are having a font problem. Many fonts
that don't have a character designated for a
particular key stroke will display a box. At some
point, either the font you are using is incomplete,
or another font is being substituted. To track it
from the source, here are some things to try.
Make sure that the font you are using for lyrics in
Finale is good (if you can do a report with ATM
Deluxe, that would be a start). You may want to try
a different font to see if you get the same result.
Also, if you open a Finale document that has used
a font that is no longer active, it will display the
name in the list of fonts as italicized. Finale will
only be able to use fonts that are active when it is
launched, so if you have to, activate the font and
restart Finale.
Make sure that when you save your Finale eps
you include fonts.
When placing the eps in PageMaker, make sure
that the path is OK in the links manager, and that
you are linking the eps (not storing a copy in the
PageMaker document. Look under the options
button in the links manager for that).
When you make your PDF, try printing from
PageMaker to a PostScript file (with fonts
included) and distilling the PostScript file instead
of exporting as a PDF. In PageMaker, go to
Utilities>Plug ins>Save for Service Provider, click
Preflight Publication and view what it tells you
when you click the fonts tab.
If you have Illustrator, try opening both the Finale
eps and then the PDF to see what font it is using.
Let me know if this doesn't work for you. Ciao.
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Matthew Hindson
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Date Joined Jan 1999
Total Posts : 406
| Posted 6/2/2002 12:53 PM (GMT -6) | |
I think it's a font encoding problem. I get this too, whereby the extended Mac characters such as the copyright symbol, bullets, option-spaces are replaced by their PC equivalents. For example, the bullet symbol gets replaced by the Yen symbol. Goodness knows why this happens.
As for how to fix it... I would try mucking around with some of the Postscript settings, e.g. save as Binary instead of ASCII, to try to see if that solves it.
If it works, let us know.
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