print_fax, Problem in printing French Character!

Hi, there,

Does anyone know how to print out the visa form in French? My operating
system is windows xp home edition in English, and I use acrobat 7.0
professional. Whenever I print out the pdf form in French (everything looks
fine on the screen), there is some unrecognized characters in the paper form,
quite annoying.

Shall I update the operating system or simply update the printing software
coming together with the printer?

Thank you.

Edward

The symptoms are those of a classic font substitution problem. Are you
using a PostScript or PCL laser printer? In either case, navigate to the
settings in the printer driver for font substitution and make sure it is
set to _not_ substitute fonts and to print as graphics, if that setting
is available. Alternately, if possible, print using a desk jet. It
always prints as graphics.



If this does not work, please let us know which characters are not
printing correctly. I rarely use Acrobat and never in French so there
might be some other issue in play that I am not recognizing.



Tom

MSMVP

Windows Shell/User



PS
there are xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx characters
Sorry. The evil net nanny in me temporarily took over.
T



: Hi, there,
:
: Does anyone know how to print out the visa form in French? My
operating
: system is windows xp home edition in English, and I use acrobat 7.0
: professional. Whenever I print out the pdf form in French (everything
looks
: fine on the screen), there is some unrecognized characters in the
paper form,
: quite annoying.
:
: Shall I update the operating system or simply update the printing
software
: coming together with the printer?
:
: Thank you.
:
: Edward
:
:

Dear Tom Ferguson,

I follow your advice, but it does not work, the printer I am using is
Lexmark e238, I did change the settings as you described. And further when I
tried another way-change the postscript options, and let it print as image,
Acorbat simply stopped responding.

Those characters not shown correctly are those in French characters only,
those shared with English characters can be printed correctly.

To add to this, I tried to print out some other pdf documents in French,
without changing the settings, they work just fine. FYI, I post the linkage
where you can download the pdf form in question and try it youself if you
wish.

http://www.consulfrance-newyork.org/IMG/pdf/visalon.pdf

or you can click instead on thihs linkage, namely, Application Form (French
Only):
http://www.consulfrance-newyork.org/article.php3?id_article=374

Thank you for the help!

Edward

Have you downloaded the font packs available for Acrobat and Acrobat Reader?
I had no trouble printing the document with Acrobat 7.0.8.

Try this link:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html


--
Earl F. Parrish

That is wonderful! Thank you, all settled now. I have come to this pack days
ago, but did not link French with Central European ....

But when I go through the following description thoroughly, I know what the
trick is, the French Consulate simply did not incorporate the font in need in
its PDF documents, and others did!

In case anyone meets with this problem in the future, I also past the
language font pack description here for reference.

Asian and Central European font packs for Adobe Reader
If the author of an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file embeds CJK
and Central European (CE) fonts in a PDF document, then any language version
of Adobe Reader software will be able to display the CJK and CE text on any
system without additional software. If the author of the PDF document uses
CJK or CE fonts but does not embed them in the document, then the correct
fonts will need to be installed in order to view the Adobe PDF file on
non-native systems.

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x users must download Asian font packs from this
page. Adobe Reader 6.0 was the first version of Reader to download the
correct font packs on demand, although they are offered on this page as well
for users wishing to download them in advance.

The Central European pack contains more than 60 Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek
scripts.