Rotated Placed PDF causes hypens to drop?

[Cory]

ok..had a wierd one today and would like to try and find an answer since we printed 25,000 wrong..

have a PDF that was placed into indesign, was rotated 180 and exported as an EPS.

that EPS was ran through rampage where all the hyphens dropped out (no errors or anything)

if I take the eps that ID CS2 created and run it through distiller the hyphens also drop out, so I don't think this is Rampage related.

go back and rotate the pdf back to 0 and everything is fine, so rotating it is what is causing the problem...

also, if I do a export as PDF from ID - everything is fine as well...so it seems to be an Export EPS and Rotate PDF problem.

Any ideas?

[Joe]

I had a similar problem last night rotating a PDF 90 degrees and then exporting a PDF I had a lot of text missing, not just hyphens. The only solution I found to work was printing a PS from InDesign and distilling with Distiller 7.

One thing I should have tried and didn't for some reason is to rotate the PDF in Acrobat and then place it into InDesign. Maybe that would work?

[David]

Are all the fonts embedded or subset?
Is it a type 1 font or...?

Shouldn't matter, but just a curiosity...

but, you never know.

[almaink]

I've seen this with drop shadows in Indy as well. Rotating in Acrobat is how I fixed it. You could always convert to outlines as well.