FYI, Acrobat Reader 4.0 does not seem to have a problem with the file.

Steve, for MY information, what software do you use to get those nice graphs in
your file?

Thanks,

Don Waldman



Quoting wadavis@...:

> Steve,
>
> The file you created is the problem. I do not know how to set the options
> in PDF factory (see my comment later), but it is not embedding the font
> labelled as EXPSymbolX (The long name without spaces of EXPSymX.tff). It
> looks like the other EXP fonts made it to the file, but with different
> names. Since the names are not precisely that same as on EXP, I am not
> sure why you can see them. It may be related to your system in some
> manner. I can not see those fonts in my AA5 on Win98. I tried on my XP
> machine with AA6 and it looks fine, but again the fonts are not embedded
> (EXPSymbolX, Reporter, and Reporter (Bold)). The font embedding is your
> problem. I am not sure why my Win98 does not show the fonts.
>
> The first thing you should do in such cases is check the document
> properties of the PDF and select fonts. That should tell you if the fonts
> are embedded (not in your case). Go to the Advanced>Font tab of the PDF
> Factory tab and you should find that your fonts are not getting embedded.
> Fix the selection and retry. I just have an old demo version of PDF
> Factory and that is the best I can tell you. I use Acrobat for my PDFs
> (at home this is AA5 due to Win98).
>
> Just to let you know, all I saw were little dots where the font should
> have been on Win98. There were not sums, integrals, and brackets that are
> part of the file. The reason you can see them on your system is likely
> because they are part of your system. I have no idea why my Win98 system
> did not show them. Acrobat will display the correct font if it can find
> them. Your students can't find the fonts and they are not embedded.
>
> Bill
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > Thanks for the response. Here is one of the pages my students are having
> > problems with:
> > www.bucks.edu/~taylors/math141/Keypt3.pdf
> >
> > As I said, I have no problem seeing the page or printing the page with 6.0.
> > It's some of the math symbols that are not displayed properly. For example
> in
> > place of a summation sign there is some other symbol like a dot (or maybe
> > something else) showing up. So at least the students know that something
> belongs
> > there and can guess at the proper symbol.
> >
> > Ironically when I just looked at the page I was prompted by Adobe to see if
> I
> > wanted to upgrade to 7.0.
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
> Original message:
>
> I convert my exp files to pdf using pfd factory. Everything was fine
> with Adode Reader 6.0. Now some of my students, who I believe have
> 7.0, are having difficulty reading the files. The problem is with the
> math symbols like summation signs. I don't have a problem with 5.0 or
> 6.0. The students say that they get an error message about a font not
> being available.
>
> Is anyone aware of this problem? There was a similar problem with 5.0
> which was corrected with a patch or update.
>
> --
> Dr. William A. Davis, Director of VT Antenna Lab
> The Bradley Dept of Elec & Comp Engr, Virginia Tech
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