5/10/2023 0 Comments Adobe illustrator pdf text blocksand eventually they got back to me saying they needed the original illustrator file, but i had saved it as a pdf when i created it so they did have the original file, i didn't understand what they meant at the time, and they just responded by saying something to the effect of "well obviously this is of vital importance, your football pool results, we'll get back to you" no graphics, only 1 font, no special characters, etc. Nothing else on the page, just that one text box. (it was the results of our football pool that year, i needed to type up something and that happened to be in front of me) I talked to adobe tech support through a few different phone calls and ended up sending them a test file so they could see for themselves, I made a test page in Illustrator that was just a blank letter sized sheet with a text box in the middle where I typed something like As to why it happens, I can't find any reason to it. ![]() ![]() That has been my experience with them anyway. In Illustrator they're not there, and in the Acrobat Reader they are, but only in full Acrobat can you do anything about them. Then you can select and delete the boxes. Not the Acrobat Reader, full blown Acrobat. I've seen this a few times, and the only solution I've found is to open the file in Acrobat. I can't convert the TrueType font to Type 1, because it makes extensive use of high ASCII characters for foreign language and other specialty characters that won't map correctly in PostScript. Is that weird or what? Any ideas? For now, I'm instructing the artists to lay out their text in Helvetica, and then go back and select only the actual printable characters in the homebrew font-at least until I can figure it out. I opened both the homebrew and the Helvetica font in Fontographer and examined the two characters (Octal 011 and Octal 037) and found no obvious difference between them (e.g., there was no art in either of those character slots in either font). I opened the file in a text editor and found that Distiller substituted the Unit Separator (ASCII 31, Octal 037) character.įunny thing is that when I had the artist select the tab character and substitute a more common font (such as Helvetica), and then reprint the document, the problem (square boxes) went away. I opened the page of the PDF file in Illustrator, saving it out in EPS format. ![]() After distillation, the boxes appear where tab characters were placed originally. The file was placed in an Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 document and printed, using the Print to Distiller feature in Windows 2000. Analysis shows that the artist entered a Tab (ASCII 9, Octal 011) before typing the text. Strange square boxes appear adjacent to text entered in a home-brew TrueType font originally created in Fontographer. Illustrator EPS file created in Illustrator 10.0 (Windows 2000), saved as 7.0 with font embedding turned on (because Windows print drivers aren't as smart as Mac print drivers-Macs are smart enough to download fonts to the printer when it encounters them in placed graphics, unlike Windows).
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