Font printing problem

[andyr1k]

Hello,

I'm new to this forum, and I have only been using InDesign for a couple of months now on Windows XP. I have come across a problem with InDesign and the final print. The situation is I have a single character style that is applied to two different areas of text, but on the print one text area is thinner than the other. I have checked the pdf that was used to print from, the text is fine, and in InDesign there is no problem. Although one text area is upside down because how the brochure folds.

The font I am using is MisterEarl LT BT.

I am wondering whether it is a printing or InDesign issue, and how I would go about correcting it.

 

[jmgalvin]

Did you type the text, paste it in, or place it? If you did either of the 2nd two, you might have inherited some formatting from the original doc, like Word. I just had that 3 days ago - the pdf printed light gay instead of black on 3 lines.

If the above is the case you might try removing any formatting from the text and then place it into the doc.




Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[andyr1k]

The information I copied didn't have any formatting to it, but I wrote over the formatting by creating my own in the program. I have a printed proof that I am looking at and I also talked to the printer because I am not very familiar with the printing process. He said that it could be a trapping issue between the font and background. Can someone describe to me what "trapping" is and if there is anything I can do to prevent that from happening in InDesign.

 

[jmgalvin]

When you copy or place, formatting - especially in copy/paste - can definitely be retained and your setting will not ordinarily fix it.

Save the problem text - from original creator app - as text. Then Place - not copy/paste - it into the section of the id doc.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Ekwoman]

If there is trapping applied to text, it will only add it where it's needed. Trapping is when a color is spread (or choked) so that where colors meet there's a bit of overlap. This gets rid of mis-registration problems on a press. To see if that is the problem, try printing the page as separations and see if the text looks "fat" where it interacts with a graphic or another color. If you have a printer that allows separations (like a b/w laser), try that and choose Off from the Trapping pulldown menu in the Output section of the Print dialog. You could also select the text, choose overprint fill from the Attributes palette, and try printing separations.

My first thought was that it was a trapping issue, too.