Font, Word, and Acrobat problem

[carbonel]

I have a document that I need to print TODAY. This is the sixth in a series (my zine for Escapade!), and all of them have essentially the same formatting layout. The primary font is Century Schoolbook.

In place of dingbats from another font, I'm using a series of triangles -- both up-pointing and down-pointing -- as dividers.

However, after closing Word last night, when I re-opened my document, my dingbats have turned into different characters. They now display as the Greek lowercase letters sigma and tau, instead of my triangles.

I keep the final version of the document as a PDF, and when I run the document through Acrobat, the sigmas and taus are still there.

If I open an earlier document in the series, the triangles are there as they should be. I haven't tried distilling that earlier document in Acrobat for fear of breaking that one as well. If I paste the triangles from the previous document into the current document, they turn into Greek, so it's obviously some sort of display or embedding problem, and not a rogue search-and-replace.

I'm using Word 2003 and Acrobat 8.0. I've tried various font embedding settings in Acrobat, since when I first printed the document a couple of days ago, the triangles showed up as v's and w's, but tweaking the font settings fixed that.

Does anyone have any ideas about what I can do to fix this? If I can't print this today, it's going to be a disaster.

(Late thought: Could it be a corrupt copy of Century Schoolbook?)

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Word documents get corrupted in weird ways. Sometimes it happens when a document has been revised a lot, because Word seems to store the original version and then make a list of all the changes in order they were made. I should have thought of this before -- something you can do in such cases is to "Save As" instead of just using "Save." This way, the document is saved as it is, instead of as [original] plus [change] plus [change] plus...

But it sounds like you've probably got it under control now without any help from me. Life is good.