I have a client for whom I edited a book. I am working on a PC, she is on a MAC. I edited her book in MS Word format, converted to a PDF and sent it to her. When she opened it in Adobe Reader (the processor is 2.4 ghz intel core 2 duo) version 10.0.1. The document was all messed up. ![]() There are weird spacing issues, the fonts are messed up, things are underlined that werent before, etc. Its designed to be an e-book, and it must be viewable on both PCs and MACs. The fonts used include: Book Antiqua, and a user-made free font called 'odstemplik' which I downloaded from dafont.com, and wingdings. There are differing margins (for alot of quoted text), a 2 full page images (front and back cover), bullets, and both bold and italicized text. There are also bookmarks for the table of contents, and headers and footers. I'm working on Vista Home Premium 2007. She is on Mac OSX How can I make the document 'universal' in that it is viewed the same on both pcs and macs (as an e-book)? WHAT IVE TRIED: -Saving as an.rtf and having her convert it to.pdf on her Mac (created new issues with fonts/spacing) -Saving as an.rtf then converting to.pdf on MY pc and sending it to her (same problems) RUMORS? -Ive heard something about doing javascript (which im not too familiar with) to tell the file to change fonts when opened on certain platforms. -Saving the pages as images (how?) and then converting to pdf. PLEASE HELP ME!!! Im about to friggin SNAP! That's an odd issue as PDF was designed to be platform independent. You make it on a PC, it will look identical on a Mac, or linux machine. Did she email you screen shots of the issue? What did you use to encode the document into PDF? Adobe, cutepdf, another product? ![]() Jan 27, 2017 - Word allows you to protect parts of a document so that they cannot be changed. This is done through Word's implementation of its forms feature. Word creates.doc or.docx files, which is its native file format. Occasionally, Windows users decide to forward on one of these.doc files to a friend or colleague, forgetting to inquire whether they have or use Microsoft Word. A typical Mac user, in fact, won’t have Microsoft Word on their Mac. Its possible if you didn't use adobe it did not embed the fonts and so adobe on the mac substituted the missing font. If memory serves me, adobe acrobat has the ability to embed fonts as an option when rendering PDFs I'd also reach out to the adobe forums, they're probably much more attuned to issues like this. As Hansr said, the problem is that Word (which to repeat is lousy as a desktop publishing system) is not embedding the font used into the document, so if you get to a system that does not have that exact font it will substitue some other font in its place, and that tends to look lousy. The solution is to use a real desktop publishing system that embeds fonts into the PDFs. This is the fault of the tool you are trying to use, and you will have similar problems on any platform, i.e.: the Mac is not the problem here. You would have the same problem on a Windows computer that did not have that exact font, and that can even be the case between otherwise identical Windows computers that have different versions of Windows, or even different version s of MS Office installed on them. Click to expand.DH had problems recently with a PC-created PDF file working correctly on his MacBook Pro (os x10.6). When I opened the file using whatever the native PDF reader is on his Mac ('Preview' or 'Quick View' maybe?), the PDF appeared correctly on the screen, but, when I tried to print the PDF file. Parrallels for mac slower than bootcamp. Well, let's just say it was a mess! I played around a bit. And, finally thought to download Adobe Reader for MAC. The combination of using 'Adobe Reader for Mac' to open the file, but using the print option in 'Finder' in the Mac menu (not from within the Adobe Reader PDF file) let us print the document out correctly formatted, with proper fonts, etc. So, Adobe Reader worked fine for us in that case, but, I'm posting here because the title of this thread caught my eye. I too will be dealing with various PDFs -- but in the opposite situation -- I plan on using WORD for MAC to create files and then convert these files to PDF, although my recipients will likely be using PCs to read my PDF files. I'll gladly try the other PDF creators as well as the 'actual' DTP tools mentioned here so I might circumvent this issue entirely, but something is still bothering me. Question: If a person creates and/or converts a file into a PDF (regardless of the computer platform, OS, PDF or DTP tools they are using) but uses what is considered a universal font, such as TIMES NEW ROMAN, will the PDF document work okay on any system as long as the user has a PDF reader of some sort? I mean, if both the creator and the recipient of the PDF file use what is considered a standard font, could these PDFs read well regardless of the user's set-up? Does the problem being discussed here lie exclusively with how the software handles 'font embedding' and not just a quirk or conflict with the specific font that is being used in the creation of the PDF? (I hope that's clear.
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