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When printing to pdfFactory from a mathCAD file (V14 M030). A message appears "pdfFacory supports TrueType fonts. This document uses Type 1 fonts, which will not be correctly imaged to PDF. Do you want to continue anyway?"
The document looks ok on the viewer but I have not yet tried to print out a paper copy.
Should this be the case - that is : What's the difference between type 1 and true type fonts, and why has mathcad chosen this one.
Philip
PS If you want to paste text (e.g. from Notepad) into this edit box during preparation you need to first click on the HTML icon (top right) to switch to plain text mode, then re-click it again to get formatting back.
Philip Oakley wrote:
When printing to pdfFactory from a mathCAD file (V14 M030). A message appears "pdfFacory supports TrueType fonts. This document uses Type 1 fonts, which will not be correctly imaged to PDF. Do you want to continue anyway?"
The document looks ok on the viewer but I have not yet tried to print out a paper copy.
Should this be the case - that is : What's the difference between type 1 and true type fonts, and why has mathcad chosen this one.
It's a postscript font. Try CutePDF instead. That's what I use, and it doesn't seem to have that problem (in fact, I have never had any problem with it, in any piece of software!)
PS If you want to paste text (e.g. from Notepad) into this edit box during preparation you need to first click on the HTML icon (top right) to switch to plain text mode, then re-click it again to get formatting back.
Or paste the text into Word first, then into the edit box. That's not any easier, just an alternative
995 was great and simple
CutePDF , I have zapped it
PDFcreator works fine but smashes my plot borders and sometimes the line in program
DeskPDF [ScanSoft $29.95] wants to install Postscript font(s) , it finds in the Windows cabinets
PDF Converter 6 [Nuance $ 69 CD] , Creates, Converts, Edits [a great tool for reasonable $]
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In their principles, PDF are converters from windows coding [Mathcad or else] into most popular printers. If your printer has 1200 PPI, the PDF thrives to render that resolution ... which resolution you can't see on the crappie screen 96 PPI. I can't compare PDF Converter 6 with Adobe because Adobe don't have a trial version. DeskPDF has a printing quality option in % compression [don't really understand their compression principle]. "PDF's" are virtual printer doing what some software have "Print to file".
Cute PDF or Acrobat is the way to go.
Mike
MIke Armstrong wrote:
Cute PDF or Acrobat is the way to go.
Mike
Wait Philip tries. ADOBE prices around $ CAN 700 !
You are proposing the two extremes !
jean Giraud wrote:
You are proposing the two extremes !
Exactly.
2 options which are 2 extremes.
Mike
I've done a bit more digging.
The problem appears to be the new MathCadUniMath font (MathCadUniMath.otf) used for all the special symbols, e.g. phi and psi (or the ohm/Omega symbol) from the Greek pallette.
These are part of the UniMath font. http://www.appliedsymbols.com/um/
This font is in "Open Type" format. It looks OK on my screen with pdfFactory.
http://www.truetype-typography.com/opentype.htm
I found this explantaion of the TrueType vs Type 1 font wars on the web.
http://www.truetype-typography.com/articles/ttvst1.htm
http://www.truetype-typography.com/ttandt1.htm
Part of 'my' problem is that this is for a corporate environment where we have an old version of pdfFactory generally available, but no ability to load say Cutepdf (which I use at home).
All that happens with pdfFactory is that the screen shot looks OK but the created pdf has blank space where the greek characters used to be!
I am pursuing the option for an update to the pdfFactory version
- Has anyone used the latest version of pdfFactory sucessfully with V14 and greek characters?
Interesting,
In short and from recollection [could be confirmed], one type uses Bézier quadratic, the other type Bézier cubic. That resumes and explicits the nebulous "different mathematical representation". Free with Linux, there is a "print to file" apparently a 1/1 quality to the expensive Adobe. Hard to imagine PTC didn't think of Linux, for sure it's not much American ! meaning small $ exploitation. Readers can ignore my last comment.
I am pursuing the option for an update to the pdfFactory version - Has anyone used the latest version of pdfFactory sucessfully with V14 and greek characters?
Their website specfically says it supports font embedding, and that all fonts will be displayed:
http://www.fineprint.com/products/pdffactory/index.html
So it should work.
The new version of pdfFactory (trial version, V4.0) does appear to handle the fonts OK, however I'm not sure if the font embeding has actually happened. The properties section of the pdfFactory indicated that the uniMath was not included as an embedded font (it was on the left hand side of the 'include font' option table!), but could be as a user option.
I need to regenerate a sheet and do the saving to pdf and then post the pdf so others can check.
The other issue I noticed was that if I copy the text (e.g. a variable name in greek) from MathCAD to MS Word (using paste special : unicode) then when it is pasted into the word document the font has been changed from unuimath to other fonts, with changed glyphs.
In my system the main text is Times new roman, with one of the phi characteres being shown as Lucinda unicode. I am still able to change the font (in Word) for the text back to the MathCADUniMath font and then get the same glyphs displayed as showed in the actual mathcad sheet. But again that is an extra user action!
This just shows how tricky this stuff can be and how much care is needed.
The new version of pdfFactory (trial version, V4.0) does appear to handle the fonts OK, however I'm not sure if the font embeding has actually happened. The properties section of the pdfFactory indicated that the uniMath was not included as an embedded font (it was on the left hand side of the 'include font' option table!), but could be as a user option.
I need to regenerate a sheet and do the saving to pdf and then post the pdf so others can check.
We all have the font installed though. Just look at the pdf on a computer without Mathcad (or, more accurately, the Mathcad Unimath font) installed. If you can see the characters the font must be embedded in the pdf.
The other issue I noticed was that if I copy the text (e.g. a variable name in greek) from MathCAD to MS Word (using paste special : unicode) then when it is pasted into the word document the font has been changed from unuimath to other fonts, with changed glyphs. In my system the main text is Times new roman, with one of the phi characteres being shown as Lucinda unicode.
I see the same thing, except that all the characters in Word are Times New Roman. That means one of the phis shows up as capital phi, and changing the font to Mathcad Unimath does not fix it.
>I see the same thing, except that all the characters in Word are Times New Roman. That means one of the phis shows up as capital phi, and changing the font to Mathcad Unimath does not fix it.<
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This is a very complicated business, not new, not worth a discours,
the logic diagram behind would kill a dead stone [something like
the logic of this forum].
"font smoothing" a Microsoft expression and option
that's what it means.