topic Font/mask errors in PDF export in Mapping Questions

Font/mask errors in PDF export

AnttiPietilä — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:09:52 GMT

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?

Re: Font/mask errors in PDF export

JayantaPoddar — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:30:38 GMT

Antti,

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

Re: Font/mask errors in PDF export

AnttiPietilä — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:36:10 GMT

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.

Re: Font/mask errors in PDF export

ToddBlanchette — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:39:06 GMT

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

Re: Font/mask errors in PDF export

ElieRizk — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:05:29 GMT

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.

Re: Font/mask errors in PDF export

DavidLehrke — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:06:07 GMT

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.