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- lowimpakt
ok i searched and it has come up but I cant find an answer. I have 3 page spread created in Illustrator that I want as a pdf. I have to outline the text but the text become unreadable on screen when converted to pdf. What is going wrong. I am stressed and up to me goolies any help much appreciated.
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- save0
can you not screengrab it......??
and why you using Illustrator for spreads??
- gruntt0
When you say "outline the text" do you mean you're converting the text to outlines or your text has a fill with a different color stroke?
- robotron3k0
can you not convert to outline and instead just embed the fonts when your saving out as pdf?
- normal0
Hmm... outlines the text becomes unreadable when converted to PDF....
Could be your PDF compression, check your PDF compression settings in illustrator when you save as a PDF. Try it with no compression.
Or you could be viewing it at an unresolvable percentage in the Acrobat Viewer such as 67 try viewing it at 100 percent.
- lowimpakt0
It happens at 100%. I only have an old version of quark that has no pdf capacity so i had todo it in Illy.
With no compression the file size is massive and we want to sen the invite/brochure out to lots of people. Damn this I haven't done any print work in a while and am now screwed by the looks of it. :(
- rob_pc0
i have the same problems...
but if you embed the fonts as you're saving it out, then on screen the fonts will appear crisp. when you outline fonts or just use vector artwork, it appears "crunchy" on screen.There is a setting in Prefs in Acrobat to display everything in Anti-alias on screen.
- gsd0
on screen, through PDF, vector eps files always look ropey. You need to stop converting the text to paths and just embed the fonts. Either way, when you print it out it'll look fine.
- gruntt0
what rob and gsd said.
goot luc.
- normal0
yeah, i was off, it sounds like they've got it nailed. Forgot about the embeding part and the outlining might be the culprit.
- zombiewoof0
It could simply be your reader settings.
There is a setting in Prefernces on your PDF reader or Acrobat Application for Smooth Line Art. If smoothing is unchecked all line art (ie. outlined type) will look crappy.
Older versions it can be found Prefs>General>Display... check smoothing boxes
Newer Version 6.0 Prefs>Smoothing
This has happened to me when I send a perfectly rendered PDF to a client and they start with the "the text looks crappy..."nonsense.
- -sputnik-0
its happened to me a few times with some weirdo fonts. no matter what i would do, i'd get font issues.
so i switched fonts and all was well.
- lowimpakt0
Thanks for your help I calmed down and started from scratch. no outlines and embedded the fonts and everything was fresh.
I was having a near heart attack / todays work deadlines looming and I had a thesis submission and I have to speak at a conference this w'end (haven't written my speech yet) so I wasn't thinking straight at all.
phew
- forcetwelve0
for next time if you didn't already know - if you print the pages to a postscript file through illustrator then distill it with all fonts embedded in the settings you'll be fine. i've had fonts dissapear if the pdf isn't created thru distiller.
hope you get thru it.