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Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

SGraham_MGArchitects — Fri, 19 May 2023 14:04:07 GMT

I've been trying to publish a drawing set containing several fairly standard fonts (Arial, Trebuchet)...When i publish through the Amyuni driver via the "temporary Archicad 10 publisher" printer, any Arial font text is missing. The fonts do show up in the published pdfs when i switch the temp printer driver from amyuni to adobe pdf...but that driver is much slower. Is this a problem with the amyuni driver, or am i missing something?

- Scott

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Link — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:21:39 GMT

Have you tried setting the Font Embedding options in the Advanced Panel of your Amyuni Printing Preferences?

Do it via Start>Printers & Faxes> right click on Amyuni> Printing Preferences. This way it will stick permanently.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

SGraham_MGArchitects — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:58:41 GMT

I tried that, and i'm still getting the same error.
It's only happening with the Arial regular font (arial narrow works), and only Text boxes that use arial font (dimension strings with arial labels still print).

...I don't get it...

Has anybody else had a similar problem or been able to recreate this effect?

- Scott

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

SGraham_MGArchitects — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:09:19 GMT

OK...some more experimentation has led me to the conclusion that it's some sort of glitch within the publishing routine that affects Arial Regular Italics...it is somewhat a hit or miss, and could end up being something that broke in this particular pln file.

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:43:54 GMT

Arial Regular is one of the Microsoft released web fonts (a near exact copy of the classic Helvetica - to get around royalty fees), so it's installed on just about every modern Mac or Windows PC (not sure about Linux). Maybe that's the reason why it is not being embedded.

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Link — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:56:20 GMT

It's included in the Font Embedding Options, so one wouldn't think so. Sounds like a more specialized problem. Is the font definitely on your machine? It doesn't appear as [Arial] does it?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:47:30 GMT

I have the same problem, and have been having it for some time. It appears to be with the Amyuni driver. Everything "prints" fine, but when I try to view the file in Adobe, I get a message saying

Cannot extract the embedded font 'LVWJVH+Arial,Italic'. Some characters may not display or print correctly.

after which the file goes blank. Now the 'LVWJVH' part is not constant and changes with each file and/or print version, but is apparently constant with the same file. I've gone through the settings and set it so that no fonts are embeded whatsoever. Unfortunately I keep getting this message all the time, and I'm just about ready to start issuing drawings from v10. It's not a nice problem to have.

I'm really at a loss here. Anybody have any ideas?

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Aussie John — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:42:57 GMT

For OSX users - if you save as PDF-X option in print dialogue will embed font an other detail

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:32:22 GMT

But what if you're on PC with XP? How can I fix this for the XP? Or should I just give up and pull out my vellum and my led holders?

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:11:31 GMT

What you can do as a temporary workaround is use the free 30-day trial of Acrobat 3D. There doesn't seem to be a free trial of the more reasonably priced Acrobat Pro 8.0.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat3d/

(If you have a use for Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign or Dreamweaver as well, the Adobe CS2.3 bundle is a good investment.)

Graphisoft will have to make an update that provides a more recent version of the Ayumi PDF driver within three months as the current one does not work at all with Windows Vista.

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:24:40 GMT

SuperJasE wrote:
What you can do as a temporary workaround is use the free 30-day trial of Acrobat 3D. There doesn't seem to be a free trial of the more reasonably priced Acrobat Pro 8.0

I would gladly use that. Problem is that if you try to print (to Acrobat or Amyuni, you apparently can't print all the sheets in one file. And if you "save" to PDF it uses the Amyuni printer automatically (from my observations). So I'm caught between a rock and a hard place.

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Djordje — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:30:26 GMT

Sergio wrote:
Problem is that if you try to print (to Acrobat or Amyuni, you apparently can't print all the sheets in one file.

Yes you can.

The trick is to have a top folder that contains all the layouts you want to publish. Click on that folder, set the parameters (paper size etc). In the bottom is the checkbox for publishing everything to one multi page file.

Re: Missing Fonts when Publishing to PDF

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:52:04 GMT

Djordje wrote:
The trick is to have a top folder that contains all the layouts you want to publish.

Check - have that

Click on that folder, set the parameters (paper size etc).

Check - have that too

In the bottom is the checkbox for publishing everything to one multi page file.

Nope, can't find the button. THAT's the problem right there. See attached pic.