Hi, I encounter problems when I print a PDF file of my scores, using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, from within Cubase 5.5.2.
I choose Print and select AdobePDF as the “printer”. If I then check the “rely on system fonts …” checkbox, off course, it becomes a mess and the score is not readable, with a bunch of symbols and letters where there should have been notes.
But if I choose to embed all fonts in the pdf-file (i.e. leaving the checkbox “Rely on system fonts …” unchecked), it is a very nice result – the only “little” problem is that the f-clefs at the beginning of each row are missing and the f-clefs are replaced with black boxes/squares.
I first thought it was a missing Windows-font, but that is not the problem. Because if I print a page with only f-clef rows , the f-clef looks just normal. And if I have f-clefs in the middle of the bars (clef change), the f-clef look just normal too. The problem arises therefore if I have two bar of each line (eg polyfonic / piano style). Then the g-clef is normal, but the f-clef is replaced with a box.
Printing directly to the printer from Cubase looks completely normal, which makes me even more suspect the Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 more … But I have updated to the latest updates via Adobe Update Manager and still the result is the same black box .
One solution would seem to instead of printing to pdf, make an export of each sheet music page for themselves (Exports score → image file / jpeg) and then merge the images to a PDF in Acrobat Pro. But that would of course end up with a very large file size, which is not very suitable when I want to send the file electronically … .
Anyone encountered this problem, or who has any idea what I can do to solve it?
I rather don’t exchange my PDF-software since it was kind of expensive and should be able to print sheet music from Cubase.
BR
Bisonium