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Kent Walters · 09-25-2009, 08:01 PM

Mackx,

For ref: the sample magazine I downloaded was named ‘sqe_bettersoftware_0909.pdf’ (just insuring we are talking about the same doc).

The magazine does have embedded fonts, Acrobat shows Hundreds of font subsets in it, in fact. While I don’t care for the idea of that many (my limit is five), it doesn’t seem to me that it should cause any problem other than slowing things down.

I looked at page 26, and couldn’t find anything different (PDF element wise) than on page 20, so ya got me stumped, Bud.

A copy and paste of the front cover’s ALL CAPS diagonal banner (FIND THE BUG INSIDE & WIN AN AMAZON GIFT CARD), is rendered as: “Find the Bug inside & win an aMaZOn giFt CaRd!”, which my word processor says is in the Impact font, and one of the embedded subsets is Impact, so something is happening with fonts. The cap changes occur elsewhere, too.

Do you have other mags/PDFs that behave this way, or could it be that you have won the Gift Card?

This PDF is way, way too complicated, in my view; it doesn’t offer anything that couldn’t be presented in a flat PDF--not even a functional table of contents--and unnecessary complications are bound to cause problems for somebody. I suggest contacting the publisher(s) about the problem, and seeing if they offer a text or ‘print’ version. I could offer a workaround, but nothing that would be practicle for a ‘read and toss’ mag, or that you’d want to do often.

I’m sorry, Mackx, but I don’t really have time to help you much.

BTW, I’ve been testing software for years, in fact, one of the things that I like about Adobe is that they seem to do most of their testing themselves--before they release--and not make me pay for the honor of testing it for them.

Kent Walters

09-25-2009, 08:01 PM	#15
Kent Walters Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 92 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Northern California, USA Device: iRex DR1000S, Astak EZreader (Hanlin V3)	About the mag... Mackx, For ref: the sample magazine I downloaded was named ‘sqe_bettersoftware_0909.pdf’ (just insuring we are talking about the same doc). The magazine does have embedded fonts, Acrobat shows Hundreds of font subsets in it, in fact. While I don’t care for the idea of that many (my limit is five), it doesn’t seem to me that it should cause any problem other than slowing things down. I looked at page 26, and couldn’t find anything different (PDF element wise) than on page 20, so ya got me stumped, Bud. A copy and paste of the front cover’s ALL CAPS diagonal banner (FIND THE BUG INSIDE & WIN AN AMAZON GIFT CARD), is rendered as: “Find the Bug inside & win an aMaZOn giFt CaRd!”, which my word processor says is in the Impact font, and one of the embedded subsets is Impact, so something is happening with fonts. The cap changes occur elsewhere, too. Do you have other mags/PDFs that behave this way, or could it be that you have won the Gift Card? This PDF is way, way too complicated, in my view; it doesn’t offer anything that couldn’t be presented in a flat PDF--not even a functional table of contents--and unnecessary complications are bound to cause problems for somebody. I suggest contacting the publisher(s) about the problem, and seeing if they offer a text or ‘print’ version. I could offer a workaround, but nothing that would be practicle for a ‘read and toss’ mag, or that you’d want to do often. I’m sorry, Mackx, but I don’t really have time to help you much. BTW, I’ve been testing software for years, in fact, one of the things that I like about Adobe is that they seem to do most of their testing themselves--before they release--and not make me pay for the honor of testing it for them. Kent Walters Last edited by Kent Walters; 09-25-2009 at 08:04 PM.