But, the fonts are actually Century Schoolbook (as evidenced by the italic)! So, not only is a font substitution happening, it's displaying the properties of the fonts I specified in Word, but which are not being honored in the PDF.
#Caltrans standard font century schoolbook pdf#
When you look at the Properties of the incorrect PDF file printed to the Adobe PDF printer from Word, it says in the Fonts tab that the Postscript version of ITC Century is used in the document. Just to test, I went in to the document and changed the "Normal" style to use Century Schoolbook as the font instead of ITC's Century, and the problems went away on both paper laser prints and also Adobe PDFs. So, font substitution is definitely the problem.Century Schoolbook's x-height and fit are slightly smaller, too, hence more lines fitting on the page (without changing line endings?!) And when I look at the PDF created and the paper prints of the document, the italic is indeed that of the built-in Century Schoolbook font rather than ITC's. Its italic is rather different than the italic in ITC Century Std. Then, I did a little digging, and sure enough "New Century Schoolbook" is a standard printer font installed on virtually every printer on the market. When you print that document to either Adobe PDF as a printer or to any paper laser printer, there are suddenly 5 lines of text at the bottom of the page after the same subheading! And more bizarre, every single line on the page has the exact same line ending (even hyphenated words are identical).Īt first, I thought it must be a font substitution problem, or a margin change problem.When we view a test document I created on screen in MS Word, there are 3 lines of text at the bottom of the page after a subheading.I specified using "ITC Century Std" as a standard font in the identity.
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I am having a thorny and bizarre font substitution problem with Microsoft Word 2016. Is there any way to utterly force Adobe PDF's printer driver to use only document-specified fonts that are installed at the system level and stop printer font substitution?