Heya All-knowing-Nisonians.:-)

This is odd... Finally I've upgraded to SnowLeopard on the one 
MacPro1.1/24gb RAM. so far, so good...

But since upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6.8 I've got a real mysterious 
font problem when using NWP 1.5.x [Yes I know I can go to 2.x]. I work 
mostly in tables that are to be saved as PDF files using the built-in 
'Save As PDF'.

My fonts are these:
Header: Arial RoundedMT.otf (Bold, 22p, preface page only)
Footer: Arial Narrow.ttf (Bold, 10p, line-height 0,9)
Body: Arial.otf (Plain & bold text, 12p)

All files are first saved as RTF, so I later can expand the documents. 
Pages sizes vary from 1 page to +150 pages - all with a preface page and 
the rest is one single table. (Headers set to differ on first page).

Saving into RTF is no problem and fonts are showing up correctly when 
re-opening files again to add/change rows.

But... Saving into PDF and opening these files in AdobeReader (latest 
ver.) to check whether everything is correctly placed etc. I noticed 
that the body text / table text font has changed to something else - and 
now looks more like the old Arial MT.ttf or LucidaGrande.otf.

I then opened more different PDF files in BBEdit 9.x to see which fonts 
are used in the body text / tables... - This is the real strange result:

*Font Input*:
<< /Type /FontDescriptor /Ascent 905 /CapHeight 728 /Descent -212 /Flags 32
/FontBBox [-167 -210 1000 913] /FontName /MFYEUD+Arial-BoldMT /ItalicAngle
0 /StemV 0 /AvgWidth 479 /Leading 33 /MaxWidth 1000 /XHeight 530 /FontFile2
62 0 R >>

<< /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /BaseFont /MFYEUD+Arial-BoldMT 
/FontDescriptor
64 0 R /Widths 65 0 R /FirstChar 32 /LastChar 116 /Encoding 
/MacRomanEncoding >>

NOTE: This is nearly correct apart from that I nonot use "ArialMT" and I 
donot use /any/ kind of italics.

*Font Output*:
<< /Type /FontDescriptor /Ascent 967 /CapHeight 723 /Descent -211 /Flags 4
/FontBBox [-1067 -737 1641 1162] /FontName /VRRDUF+LucidaGrande /ItalicAngle
0 /StemV 103 /AvgWidth -490 /MaxWidth 1640 /StemH 77 /XHeight 530 /FontFile2
66 0 R >>

NOTE: I donot use any italics and though the font has changed to using 
both 'LucidaGrande' and 'LucidaGrand Italic'. There is not italic text 
in the PDF files.
NOTE2: BBEdit 9.x tells me that header and footer fonts are showing up 
correctly in the PDF files.

I noticed a quite similar problem. The other day I made two 1-page 
tables with lists of some photographic equipment that I'm going to sell 
from my collection. 'Saved As PDF' from within NWP, and then converted 
these single-page PDF files into JPEG/72ppi using Adobe Photshop CS4. 
The JPEG files looked nearly as expected, though fonts were a bit 
thinner than the Arial normally is, but I didn't pay any notice to it at 
that time.

The JPEG files were a bit enlarged from A4/21x29,7cm to apprx. 27x36cm 
to retain full readability. These JPEG files then were added to some 
internet auctions (www.qxl.dk) so people can download them instead of me 
having to make very long lists with descriptions and notes.

Just to see how it worked I downloaded the JPEG files myself and opened 
them in Preview. To my surprise these two JPEG files had been 're-sized' 
to something near 15x24cm (QXL allows up to 30x40cm) and the text was 
nearly unreadable, because the font thickness were more than halvened. - 
I have seen this problem before if I had used LucidaGrande in some 
inlayed text on a picture, but never as much as this time...

What's happening here? - Is it the built-in PDEF engine in 10.6.8 that 
has the problem? - Or is the problem in AdobeReader?

Cheers, Erik Richard

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