PDF print problem
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- johnnnnyh
I've created a PDF and when I print it to my inkjet printer the text is very rough/jagged. If I create a word document with the same text and print it to the same printer the text is really crisp.
I've tried all the settings on the PDF - what am I doing wrong? Tried creating the PDF in Illustrator and Acobat but same thing. Any thoughts on why it's not working for me as a PDF but fine as a word doc?
- d_rek0
could be your printer software? Maybe try updating your printer drivers...
- johnnnnyh0
I've got the latest drivers as far as I know - on a Mac and it just seemed to work!!
- monospaced0
What happens when you make the PDF from Word?
- johnnnnyh0
Same thing - jagged text when printing from PDF antialiased text from word. Odd ain't it?
- monospaced0
anti-aliased? what do you mean by this?
- I mean it's smooth and sharp on the paper!johnnnnyh
- I don't think you know what anti-aliasing even ismonospaced
- because your type is obviously not smooth on the papermonospaced
- lajj0
Have you tried to check/uncheck the option "print as image" in acrobat printing menu ?
- johnnnnyh0
Yes, tried that but still no good.
- rodzilla0
converted text to outlines? - shouldn't matter, but it could be the problem
- johndiggity0
you are missing the postscript font file.
- jteore0
Are you outputting PDF from a design application?
- SoulFly0
Johndiggity got it.
Try using the same font in both the PDF and word doc and see the results.
- johnnnnyh0
Well I'm using True Type fonts - surely they don't require a postcript font file?
Outputting PDF from Acrobat, created the PDF in Illustrator and also tried distiller but got the same result.
I tried using the same font (Arial and Avenir). In word it looks fine when printed but when printed from the PDF the text looks rough around the edges.
monospaced - I know what antialiasing is I'm just trying to describe the printed effect from my PDF.
Basically, I would like to print from my PDF document to my printer and obtain crisp fonts in the same way that I can do with same fonts from Word from the same (MAC) computer and all the while using TrueType fonts.
Any thoughts anyone. I assume it's not the printer since Word prints OK. Therefore I'm looking at the PDF but I can't work out why it would not print "clearly"/"crisp"/"easy to read".
- maybe the font isn't embedding into the PDF file?hans_glib
- ESKEMA0
how does it print out directly from Illustrator?
- johnnnnyh0
Prints the same directly from Illustrator . . .
Really not sure what I can do next/change.If the printer is a standard, i.e. non postcript inkjet could this be a problem? I could try my laser printer but it's in the office and I'm working from home.
Just tried a PDF created by someone else and this was also rough on the fonts - so I'm thinking it's PDF and my printer. Am I on the right lines?
- monospaced0
I want to know EXACTLY how you are outputting this "jagged" PDF. Screenshot?
- rodzilla0
What are your pdf settings from illustrator to PDF?
It really sounds like there is postscript font missing
- johnnnnyh0
Using the default settings - on screen the fonts look smooth, it's just when I print it the font is furry/jagged/un-crisp. If I print the same text, size font in word to the same printer it's all sharp and much more readable.
By the way - thanks for your input on this - no one here to share the issue with : (
- ESKEMA0
can you upload a pdf?
- monospaced0
Yeah, help us help you. Visuals, files, whatever.
- SoulFly0
John how u doing buddy? handing in there?
Don't panic.
Try importing the PDF into Photoshop as TIFF or PSD, you may get a error in relation to the font, and it will looked jagged edges in the photoshop file, if that happens then your font is really the problem, not the PDF.