Font/mask errors in PDF export

[AnttiPietilä]

Hi,

I have created name labels with masks (halo), and after I export document to PDF, the masks starts acting weird. This does not occur on Arcmap workspace, only on the exported pdf. I have converted marker symbols to polygons and compressed vector graphics. Fonts are also embedded to document.

1) What causes this problem? and

2) How can I fix it?

[JayantaPoddar]

Antti,

What is the font you are using? Try usually used fonts like ARIAL. Is the issue still there?

[AnttiPietilä]

Hi Jayanta,

The problem occurs with Italic -type fonts, actually in this case I used regular Arial (Italic). There seems to be no issues with bold or underlined text however.

[ToddBlanchette]

Hi Antti,

It seems like this may be an ongoing issue (see Export Map to PDF Halo Labels shifts Halo to latter width at the end of Label Problem but there are a couple of things there that you can try.

Hope this helps!

Todd

[ElieRizk]

hello,

i have this issue too especially with arabic font (using arcgis 10.3.1 without service pack) the issue wasn't exist before, i noticed it in the past few days without changing anything in my notebook settings or apps.

i am using arial fonts with halo and when exporting to jpg or pdf the halo show shifted and not aligned with the text and sometimes after exporting the image i noticed that the text letter was prolonged.

in english letters the halo shift a little bit to bottom-right.

attached a sample.

thank you.

[DavidLehrke]

I have this issue in version 10.5.1 but did not have it in 10.2.

I realized it wasn't happening for all labels and tracked the issue to Character Spacing in the Formatted Text tab.  If I set that to 0 then there was no longer an issue.