Kitergal Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 I am about to go ballistic here. HOW does one export bullets from freehand to a PDF file? I'm working on a freak'in brochure here...and the damn bullets disappear EVERY STINKIN TIME I export it to pdf. WHY!?!?! I've tried regular bullets, dots, slashes, stars, lines, you name it and they DISAPPEAR!! WHY!! WHY WHY WHY!!!!! Quote
sobo Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 It must have something to do with your most recent first date. Sorry, I'm an engineer, and not much help with these compooter thingies, but I couldn't resist. PS: olyclimber and archenemy should be along anytime now to shit on your thread at my expense. Sorry about that, too. Quote
knelson Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 Not familiar with Freehand, but I'm guessing that the problem is with your settings within Acrobat. You want your Acrobat printer driver set up to embed the fonts. If you don't embed the fonts, and the computer you're viewing it on can't find the font specified, it defaults to something close. And something close might not have the same bullets as your original font. Boiling it down - embed your font. Not sure which version of Acrobat you're using, so I can't help you much in finding where that setting is. If that doesn't work... well then - I guess that wasn't the problem... Quote
olyclimber Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 I hate to poo on your thread, but sobo PM'd me and told me I had to. Quote
sobo Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 Oly's right on time. Any time now, archenema! Quote
billcoe Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 PS: olyclimber and archenemy should be along anytime now to shit on your thread at my expense. Sorry about that, too. Quote
Kitergal Posted August 11, 2005 Author Posted August 11, 2005 I've tried different font...and it's the same BS! THIS SUCKS!! WTF!! Quote
selkirk Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 I haven't worked with Freehand before, but have had issues getting documents into .pdf format to send to my advisor and ended up using something called CutePDF Writer. It's a little freeware program that shows up as printer option and prints directly to .pdf format. It's a bit slow but seems to do an OK job. Doesn't directly address the problem but it's a bit of a work-around. Quote
j_b Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 save as a postscript and convert to pdf with adobe distiller? Quote
Kitergal Posted August 11, 2005 Author Posted August 11, 2005 ooo..the distiller idea just might work!! What really irks me..is the fact that there are two areas where I've used the exact same font, bullets, etc. One of which exports no problem, and the other one...where I REALLY need them...won't export! UGGG Quote
ChrisT Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 since Freehand is a drawing program you can prob create little circles instead of font bullets. Kind of pain to line up though Quote
forrest_m Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 Marie - hit Cntrl-shift-A to select everything in your document and then Text -> Convert to Paths. Immediately save as a different name, because this eliminates your ability to edit text - it turns all text into "shapes". Then export as a PDF. This should eliminate most font conversion problems. Quote
Kitergal Posted August 11, 2005 Author Posted August 11, 2005 FOREST M I LOVE YOU!!! I swear..I'd give you a big wett kiss if you were here!! IT WORKED!! YOU ROCK!! Quote
forrest_m Posted August 11, 2005 Posted August 11, 2005 That sounds nice, except that i'm a boring married person. Quote
knelson Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 I hate to poo on your thread, but sobo PM'd me and told me I had to. Piglet: "p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pop him Pooh, pop him! Damn t-t-t-t-t-tigger bounced me for the last t-t-t-t-t-t-ime." Quote
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