Re: fastlane glitches Rosemary Ruff 15 Dec 1999 10:44 EST
This is almost always a problem with font availablility and the failure to embed fonts or to use Type 1 fonts as recommended. TeX/LaTeX users have a particularly difficult time with this because the software uses lots of custom (Type 3) fonts. For those of you using MAC and Windows, there are special profiles (Distiller options) which should be downloaded from Fastlane and inserted into your software configuration folder. It is fairly easy on these systems to identify Type 1 fonts and use only those. Of you have faculty using TeX/LaTeX, there are some excellent documents by D.P Story, University of Akron, on creating pdf documents from TeX software. The URL is: http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/ Rosemary At 10:02 AM 12/15/1999 -0500, you wrote: >Anne, > >I can't offer any hints, but I can sympathize with you in your problem. >We had just prepared a proposal where the Budget Notes and Facilities >section did something similar to what you mentioned. However, it was >mainly affecting the numbers in these sections. If there was a five >digit number in the section, the numerals would all print on top of one >another as if compressing them into a smaller space. Of course, this >was only happening when printing the entire proposal rather than just >the page or section. I would be anxious to hear a solution to this >problem! > >********************************************************* >Deanne L. Hoenscheid Phone: (610) 758-3863 >Materials Research Center Fax: (610) 758-3526 >462 Whitaker Laboratory E-mail: xxxxxx@lehigh.edu >5 E. Packer Avenue >Bethlehem, PA 18015 >********************************************************* > >Anne Womack wrote: >> >> Has anyone had experience with a FastLane problem whereby >> you have uploaded a file from either PDF or PS converted to PDF, >> and the print screen shows a lot of missing letters in the text? >> A further wrinkle is that when you look at the file separately >> (Project Description, for instance), it looks fine. But if you do "Print >> Entire Proposal" and then look at the PD, it is full of missing >> letters, particularly in capital letters, as in headings. >> If you have had and have overcome this problem, could you share >> some hints?? We would be grateful. >> >> Anne Womack CRA >> Director of Sponsored Programs >> Grants and Research Administration >> P.O. Box 8795 >> The College of William & Mary >> Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 >> >> xxxxxx@wm.edu >> (757)221-3967 (phone) >> -4910 (fax) >> >> ====================================================================== >> Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >> subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >> via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >> ====================================================================== > >-- > > >====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== > > _____________________________________________________________________________ ***************************************************************************** Rosemary H. Ruff VOICE: 334-844-4438 Assistant Director FAX: 334-844-5953 Contracts & Grants Administration EMAIL: xxxxxx@mail.auburn.edu 310 Samford Hall Auburn, AL 36849-5131 Trains stop at train stations. Busses stop at bus stations. On my desk I have a workstation... ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================