Font problems when exporting to a PDF under OS X Yosemite
4th Dec 2014A client reported that exporting a PDF from any application under OS X Yosemite (10.10 or 10.10.1) her fonts were becoming corrupted and appearing incorrectly. The issue arose specifically when using the font Aleo but wasn’t restricted to just that font.
The initial document in Word looked ok (despite the annoying grammar-check errors) :
But when exported as a PDF using File > Print > Save as PDF, the fonts weren’t appearing correctly :
The issue was resolved by converting the OpenType formatted font to TrueType using this web-based converter, the fonts then began to appear correctly on exported PDFs :
