I process ads for a magazine. We received an ad supplied as a PDF which had been constructed in FreeHand MX on a Mac and exported to PDF. Using Acrobat 9 Pro for the first time I used “Analyze and fix” (previously Acrobat 8 flagged up errors in preflighting without correcting them). The effect of “Analyze and fix” was to wreck the tracking and justification of the Helvetica Neue body copy (see attachment - before and after examples of an affected area). The font shows as properly embedded. This seems to be taking “fixing” a stage too far. What is happening?
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"Analyze and fix" introduces errors
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...i believe that the "apply fixups" option when conversion to PDF X 1a is causing the text to be converted to the encoding identity H (from roman) and thus messing the tracking...
...if you duplicate your current pdf profile, then edit button, in the list you have that diamond symbol "convert to pdf/X, pdf/A, pdf/E"...
...select it...
...in the options there you have "apply fixups", turn that off and try again using your duplicated profile...
Andrew
...also to add to my comment above, freehand MX users are best to either print to pdf via the adobe pdf printer or print to postscript and distill with acrobat distiller...
...direct pdf export from freehand mx can be done, but like quark 6 export to pdf it isn't the best route if you can avoid it...
Andrew
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Thanks, but this brings up the message "An unexpected error has occurred during the Fixup process" - which is the message Acrobat 8 used to produce when I attempted to Analyze and Fix. I have tried editing the profile in all the permutations I can think of, and they all generate the same message.
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...it appears that acrobat 9 differs slightly to that of acrobat 8 when converting to pdf x, the settings have the extra "fix ups" before saving it appears, so something in this conversion changes the font encoding...
...saving to postcript changes the font encoding too, but not to identity H, just ensure that whenever you distill postscript your distillers settings are correct for high end output...
andrew
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