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I've been agonizing over a printing error issue on these PDF files that I generated from InDesign and wanted to get input before I break down and redo all of these. 

Problem: 

- The PDF files I created print with scattered fonts or don't print at all when printed from Acrobat Reader 4.0. 

- This only occurs on Mac OS 

- They print fine for me but the client is having this problem on their end.  

- This does not happen when the client prints from Reader 5. 

-  Their testing service just told them they could not print the files from 4 or 5. 

- Both client and testing service could print other PDFs in 4 and 5 reader. 

 I did a test: - imported a PDF into Quark, saving out to PS opening the PS file in Distiller 5 and saved as PDF. 

- imported same PDF file in InDesign, then exported directly out to PDF. 

- I ran a pre-flight plug-in called PitStop and the differences were the following: 

________________ 

InDesign PDF 

Creator: InDesign 2.0.1 

Producer: Adobe PDF Library 

Fonts: Composite 

Encoding: Identity-H 

________________ 

Quark/Distiller 5 PDF 

Creator: QuarkXPress 4.11 

Producer: Acrobat Distiller 5.05 

Fonts: TrueType and Type 1 

Encoding: Custom 

I'm thinking that the conversion to Composite fonts might be the culprit??? 

If so is, there anyway to systematically change this by cut and pasting the font information within BBEdit? 

I have 53 documents which wouldn't be a problem but recreating them would stating from scratch which would probably take 60-75% of the 150 hours put into this project not to mention all the possible human errors when re-linking the hundreds of buttons...