font not showing correctly in pdf's

The last post brought me to think about a problem I have been having the last few weeks with some fonts in pdf’s

Suddenly pdf files that use Helvetica started to use a crammed up (narrow bold) type font, the Freeway pdf for ‘Writing actions.pdf’ is one of the documents, all the other Softpress pdf’s that I have seem fine, the ‘Writing actions.pdf’ was fine until a couple of weeks ago also.

I am not sure the font that the Softpress doc uses but some other pdf’s I have the problem with I know use Helvetica (Regular), Helvetica bold and italic are fine, it just seems to be Helvetica regular. If I create a text file using Helvetica on my computer there is no problem with it showing up as Helvetica.

I have checked the Helvetica font on my MBP with Font Book and FontAgent, they both verify it and the other Helvetica fonts without errors.

An example of what is happening is here:
http://www.easibase.com/onlyherefor2days/Picture7.png

Anyone any ideas on this?

Many thanks


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Is that viewing with Preview? I’ve had weird things happen when viewing with Preview sometimes. I open them in Adobe Reader and they are fine. Then sometimes, the same file is okay in Preview after all.


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Humm… I can’t check if they are OK in Adobe Reader right now…
guess why? because Preview is showing the font without problem at the
moment… how strange! I never noticed this before, I have gone as
far as changing fonts on my server and in the fpdf add on’s to no
avail, then I noticed it on pdf’s that where not created on the
server… such as the ‘WritingActions.pgf’ document and now you
mention this all seems well!

At least it looks like I will hopefully have the option of Adobe
Raader next time it happens.

Thanks Joe

On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Joe Muscara wrote:

Is that viewing with Preview? I’ve had weird things happen when
viewing with Preview sometimes. I open them in Adobe Reader and they
are fine. Then sometimes, the same file is okay in Preview after all.


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