Recently I was creating a small A5 leaflet with some pictures and text. I used InDesign CS6 on a Mac; I used Times New Roman for the text.
Then I exported the document to PDF using the one of the Adobe PDF Presets for PDF/X.
Next I printed the document to a standard office colour laser printer. On examination I noticed that part of the text had a different quality, it looked nearly as if I had used Bold instead of Regular.
I did a check under the Fonts tab of the Document Properties, using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. There it appeared that there were two instances of Times New Roman in use in the PDF: one as TrueType with Ansi encoding and one with TrueType (CID) with Identity-H encoding.
Using Preflight I could determine that the two version were randomly used within the one text block. In the InDesign document there is only one Times New Roman used.
I checked with the font managment software if there were possibly two versions of Times New Roman in use, but no.
What causes this seeminly random change of one version of the font to another within the same text?
Some extra info: the text used in the InDesign leaflet was imported from a Word document, so I thought that file was somehow 'polluted', perhaps more than one person had worked on it, whatever.
But I could recreate the same effect from scratch: start an A4 InDesign document, make a text frame and fill it with placeholder text. After exporting to PDF, again two versions of the font appear to be in use. Using another font did not matter either, Calibri and Hoefler Text also turned up twice. The same trick in InDesign CS4 under Windows XP on a PC only shows one version of the used font.
Did anyone come across this phenomenon and can it be fixed? It only shows up in print, not on screen. I haven't been able to send it to a sophisticated printer with a RIP. So I can't tell if it is an issue there as well.
Looking for ward to any info on this.
Ko.
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