Export to PDF loses quotes, but rest is fine.

[liquidgravity]

I have QuarkXpress 5.0. When I open my pdf document in Acrobat, I loose all my single and double quotes that are in my original Quark file. Mind you, it's not deleting the quotes, it's leaving a blank space where the quotes were. And the weird thing is that all other punctuation is fine.

I tried...

1) Using the Adobe distiller to convert a .ps (created in quark) to a .pdf, but the font is always wrong. When I tell it to look for my font in the specified folder, it still substitues its default 'Courier' font.

2) Exporting from QuarkXpress to a pdf file directly. I get the font I used in quark to come up in Acrobat, but it's ittalics. I can tell it where to find my plain font, but like 1) it can't find it.

3) A workaround solution has had the most success. I tell Quark to "Print." I've set it to use the Acrobat PDF Writer. In Quark PDF preferences, Default settings, I'm telling it to "override distiller's Font Options" and "Embed all fonts". Alas, the quotes aren't making it across...

Thoughts anyone?

 

[tonyeastwood]

You may have to set the quotes manually rather than via Quark's auto curly quotes in the preferences (turn this off and try it).

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And so I tested it, knowing full well I have had this problem too... But did I get it now? No, all methods worked. I did, however, save the quark document as an eps before distilling it, rather than sending it to file or printing it to pdf. This is easy enough for single page docs (though you CAN drag pdf thumbnails into a single pdf doc if my method works).

Let me know how you get on... and if anything works...or doesn't!

regards

Tony

 

[Ecaboodle]

Have the same problem with Quark 4 files so it's not just a Quark 5.0 thing!!! If you can't fix it in 20 minutes call someone who can.

 

[Zelandakh]

Is Distiller on the same machine? Sounds like its substituting the font.