Why does adobe print rubbish

Sorry, I forgot to clarify - the problem originated for me in apple preview and i had to go out of my way to install Adobe Acrobat. It's incredibly frustrating as I like the ease of Apple Preview to quickly print off documents, so having to go through Acrobat and print as an image is just so dumb!

It wasted so much paper printing off these inane webding symbols, the most infuriating being the smiley face hahaha. For me solves most of the PDF cases.

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Showing results for. Some printer drivers have controls for substitution that you can turn off, but not all. Remember that Acrobat comes with the base fonts Helvetica etc. An embedded font in the PDF should always have priority, unless the printer driver rejects it. Thing is, I'm not using a Postscript printer, so why would Postscript cause this problem?

So it can't be an intrinsic issue of the particular fonts chosen. I am just puzzled as to why a glitched file would do this Unicode incrementing rather than just being completely messed up from the get-go? Registered: Mar 10 Posts: 5. This seems to be a new development since Mac OS X hit CUPS generates an error producing the raster file and the postscript driver generates an endless stack of blank pages with error messages on them. Apple Preview prints correctly.

Does Adobe have an opinion - other than blame the printer company? Registered: Nov 1 This is a user to user forum. While sometimes employees from Adobe reply here, for the most part questions answered here are not by Adobe employees, nor is it an official way to contact Adobe.

Hope this helps, Dimitri WindJack Solutions www. Thanks, my initial attempt to send a message to Adobe transferred me out to this user website. Anyway I've gone back and sent them a message as well. Registered: May 10 Try using the preflight function to run and inventory report. Look at the fonts section. There is a map of the characters in their native face. Just below the character is a listing of that the character is supposed to be.

If the two do not match then there is your answer. As to how to fix it, you may want to try downloading a copy of Callas pdfToolbox the big brother to Acrobat's preflight. In pdfToolbox there are fixups to try and fix font errors. If you'd like I can try fixing a document to see if that helps. Regardless, the inventory report is the best place to start. There is a wealth of information in the report. I'm operating at a more primitive level than that. Only using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Brother responded saying they do Postscript emulation on the MFCDN, and therefore can't guarantee the proper functionality. Seems like a weak answer, but what can you do until the next driver release - if that ever comes.

Other software prints fine, including the workaround of using Apple 'Preview' as my PDF printer software. Plus, what is the point of a "bleed' in the first place if it prints smaller than the supposed "trim" size?

Doesn't that defeat the purpose? I have no way of knowing the actual printable area of every possible printer that a recipient of the PDF might choose to use. There is no good reason why I should have to know. I can see another problem with this workaround -- what if Acrobat decides to automatically "enlarge" this "smaller" page to fit as the other default setting has it?

I would bet that the vast majority of Acrobat Reader users don't even know what a "bleed" is -- it seems ludicrous to build a bleed allowance into every page, as you imply. But why is it calculating a "bleed" dimension when no artwork even approaches the page margin? It's not. It's saying "I've got a page that's a full 8. Therefore I need to shrink this page to 8.

Try coping your font types to their computer. By coping to the folder, the missing fonts if that's the case will install on it's own. I copied my Font folder over to one of the machines and that fixed it.

Although, Microsoft Outlook had some font problems there after, but nothing a repair didn't fix. Cloudjerry, I considered that at first so I updated the software with all of it's eastern packages, but the problem still occurred.

Well, I just got off a call and it appears the problem has resurfaced after replacing the fonts, sadly. I know, I'm confused as to what else might be causing this despite front replacing and reinstall, especially since it starts randomly and just stops after awhile. Indeed, it's seen on the screen. It isn't Kaspersky because we have had that installed for quite sometime, and I would think it would affect more systems than just this one.

Due to the fact it randomly comes and goes, it's hard to determine even if I disabled it. The user had created this one.