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colinowens
PDF export and text trouble
Aug 6th, 2008, 6:49am  
Hello,
I am running into a little bit of trouble getting fonts to render with the PDF library.

I'm running a MacBook Intel, Processing 0135 with the PDF library. I was using Helvetica Neue, Helvetica and Palatino, alternately, trying different names that correspond with the system's font to see if I was getting the font names wrong for render.

It's consistent. In preview, all fonts in the PDF render as different sized blocks with drop shadows (still resembling the same general patterns of text in the right position, but not edit-able). In Illustrator, all fonts in the PDF render as jagged triangles. It seems to be trying to render the bitmap screen files as objects, but failing or corrupting.

Does anyone have a syntax-related answer or a work-around?

thanks in advance.

Colin
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JohnG
Re: PDF export and text trouble
Reply #1 - Aug 6th, 2008, 6:10pm  
Try: hint(ENABLE_NATIVE_FONTS);
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colinowens
Re: PDF export and text trouble
Reply #2 - Aug 8th, 2008, 11:45pm  
Hot dog. That works like a charm. Thanks!
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fry
Re: PDF export and text trouble
Reply #3 - Aug 9th, 2008, 2:22am  
When using the PDF library, I also recommend using createFont() (which will do the hint() thing without you having to include it), and also using a newer release than 0135, since I fixed some font trouble on Mac OS X in more recent releases.
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