PDF export problem

[gwpriester]

Grace's posts and Mikes answers have been moved to https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...355#post580355

[tonylondon]

After visiting Mozilla and finding that there have indeed been significant difficulties caused by their decision to create their own built-in viewer, I was almost convinced the problem must be theirs. However if I take the xar file and print to PDF with Acrobat Pro 9, the results display perfectly in Firefox. That tells me that the fault is with the Xara conversion and not primarily with Firefox. [That's not to say that Firefox isn't overly fussy in what it will interpret to display.] It also provides me with a solution but I can't say I'm altogether happy.

[mwenz]

No idea what these pdfs are comprised of, Tony.

So a bit of a generalization. Printing to pdf flattens all transparency, embeds fonts in a completely different manner, and the list goes on. In-browser pdf viewers often cannot handle these features, though FF and Chrome can be the worst, in that order. Even Chrome has gotten far better faster than FF.

[tonylondon]

Thank you for that. Interesting. I imported the pdf printed version (which FF displays correctly) back into Xara, and exported it via xara pdf export and the problem came back.
The PDFs can be found at http://www.tonero.me.uk/jf_eventfiles/newsletter7p4.pdf and http://www.tonero.me.uk/jf_eventfile...letter7p4x.pdf
I don't want to waste your time, but if you have any further observations I'd be interested.