Font issue Helvetica55Roman

#11

On 6/02/12 5:41 PM, Martin Τrautmann wrote:

Quote:

On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:15:49 +1030, cortical wrote:
However, how where the PDFs created? There are at least three different
ways on Mac to get it done:

1) let FMP create the PDF
2) print and save it as PDF
3) use preview

routine save records as pdf form a script

Another choice: do the process on another Platform, Mac vs. PC

It needs to be cross platform. Only tested on a mac on this point

Which way did create the broken PDF? And which other ways where tried by
now?

only option 1 is viable

You should give the other choices a try, to make sure whether FMP does
create faulty PDFs on its own and whether there's another choice to
create proper PDFs at all.

How about other programs on the Mac? Are they ok? Did you make sure that
it's not the Mac version of the font which is broken?

Either you give up and hope that FileMaker will fix a bug in FMP 12
(which they won't if they don't know about) or you narrow it down where
the bug does come from, in order to prevent this bug from happening.

A hardcore solution might be to replace just the single, faulty
character by another font. I'm afraid this might look more terrible than
a complete switch of fonts. But I don't know this special Helvetica
version you refer to.

First step should be to try it on a PC...

- Martin

LibreOffice and TextWrangler have no problem displaying the font, or
Save as PDF from the OS Print menu.
Similarly File>Print>Save as PDF from FileMaker also works without error.

From a clean new test FMP file with a single field, and a single
layout, and a single script with a single default line ( save records as
PDF) , the same error as previously in the client file.

<<
A font in this document is not licensed for embedding without permission
from the legal owner or font vendor. Depending on the font, blank text
may appear in the output file.

Quote:

So that rather looks like FileMaker issue of some sort.

However, just discovered in Font Book, selecting the Font, right click
contextual menu has a Validate Font option, and this reports a warning
under Warnings or Errors for 'kern' table structure and contents;
and under "No Warnings or Errors another 15 parameters that are ok.

Downloaded the same font (Helvetica_55_Roman.ttf) yet again, from yet
another source ( Fonster), and installed, and this (also free) version,
has no reported warnings in Font Book, and with FM quit and the file
re-opened ( to reset the font to the default Verdana, reapplying the
Helvetica55Roman , save as pdf executes without error.

So, a subtle issue with the particular instance of the font ( from
several different sources ) which the system Print As PDF can deal with
and print without error, but FileMaker has a problem displaying a
character 'o', and also FM scripted Save Records as PDF.

The same truetype font (same filename) form a different source works
without error under the same scenario.

A helpful, and polite individual from another source also pointed out
the licensee source Linotype, as a means of purchasing an original copy
of the font.

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Re: Font issue Helvetica55Roman - 02-06-2012 , 04:16 PM