Converting WordPerfect 12 docs to PDFs: bold & ital

[JimStinson]

My document exports perfectly, including all formatting, except, all bold and/or italic characters come through as plain text. (The job is pure type setting, with no graphics, spreadsheets, or fancy stuff.) One other [??] symptom: exported to Word 2.0 instead of PDF, bold and italic are retained, but formatting is partially lost.
1. Is it relevant that my Palatino font is plain-only, with bold and italic created by WordPerfect? (I don't have access to Palatino Italic or Palatino Bold.)

2. How can I replicate my WP document perfectly in PDF? (The publisher -- Lulu -- will not work from WordPerfect.)

--Jim Stinson

 

[apepp]

...not ideal to be using stylized typefaces if you don't have the styles accompanying them, truetype fonts you can sometimes get away with though...

...if you are struggling to get this pdf to embed the styles, then choose a different typeface that does have an italic and bold version as part of the family. If you really have to use palatino bold and italic, i can send you these to you if you so wish...

andrew

 

[JimStinson]

Thanks, Andrew. I verified that bolds and italics CREATED BY THE WORD PROCESSOR will not convert to PDF. To solve the problem, I switched to a font called transitional 551, which has a sibling italic font, and used transitional 521, which is a native bold font. With all three fonts installed, everything transferred perfectly, and the results look more professional than bolds and italics approximated by the software.
Jim Stinson