neph Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Good day,Hoping someone can shed some light as to the following problem I'm experiencing. I have an excel file that when printed directly from excel on different printers looks different.HP4250tn - the font is unclear to fades away in certain areas. Bolded words or numbers are printed un-boldedHP3035MFP, HP9000 and HP3005P – All text, numbers are visible but any text/numbers that are bolded are printed un-boldedThe fonts used inside the file are:HelveticaNeueLTPro-Lt.otfHelveticaNeueLTPro-Th.otfHelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman.otfTempoStd-HeavyCondensed.otfHowever when I convert the very same excel file to a pdf file using cutepdf… its prints perfectly on ALL the above printers.I have tried the following:Printed from different computersReinstalled the fonts.Printed from a freshly installed Win Xp & Office 2007 computerAny ideas would be appreciated!Thank you,Neph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1149 Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 If you print a document from Word that contains those fonts, do they come out right when printed from various computers/pninters? And if not, if you embed those fonts in the Word document, does that make the difference?I think the pdf document is embedding the fonts. And I see that, up to Excel 03 anyway, Excel does not embed fonts.See http://excel.tips.net/Pages/T001969_Embedding_Fonts_in_Excel.html for more on this, and a possible workaround. Whether the issue is embedding or not, the bottom line seems to be that Excel is not terribly good at handling fonts, and your non-standard fonts may be driving it past its limits. p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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