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• • May 10, 2022 at 3:38 am #14365390
    Olivier Murith

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    Hi,

    I am having troubles with a file…

    I am using a fantastic new variable font, and I do not know if it is the font, my somewhat old-ish Xerox printer, or something else within InDesign… but the (home-)printed results are a mangled garbled mess.

    Pdf is super fine though, I can export in single pages with marks, etc, so I do not care that much, knowing that the end Offset-printed publication be ok.

    I would like, however, be able to print a booklet, to have a better feel of the final product.

    I tried the regular “Print booklet”: same disaster.

    I tried the “Export to postscript” trick, but then Distiller logs “font name not found, using Courrier”… with the same messed up results.

    Is there any settings I could try, or change, in the postscript/distiller process to solve this?

    Thanks in advance for your advices.

  • May 10, 2022 at 4:57 am #14365391
    Petar Petrenko

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    Are you trying to create booklet from InDesign or Acrobat?

  • May 10, 2022 at 5:43 am #14365392
    Olivier Murith

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    From InDesign

    The booklet option from Acrobat is unusable imho, it doesn’t create proper spreads, does not work with bleeds, add unwanted margins…

    I will have to go and make some more tests, but I think I may have stumble upon a beginning of solution from here:
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/export-issue-with-variable-font/m-p/12363285/highlight/true

    Try this: In Print Booklet > Print Settings > Graphics > Fonts > Download > Subset (instead of Complete) This forces an instance in the PS file

    On a side rant, I still do not understand why InDesign does not simply let you export your booklet in pdf…

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