Word2007 to PDFmaker conversion Font issue.

I converted My 181 Page Word Document to PDF through the PDFmaker(acrobat 9 pro)embeded into word2007. Everything Went smooth almost a 1:1 replica.

The one issue I am having is that I noticed the PDFmaker did not convert my Font properly, as I will explain in more detail below.

My document has a total of 4 different fonts used. Below are the 2 fonts, 1 of which did not convert properly.

PalladioURWTOT-Medium
PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic (conversion Problem)
(side note these are open type fonts)

You see the main text used in my document is "PalladioURWTOT-Medium" all the text files in that font came out 100% fine the problem occurs with the Italicize ones. in M$ Word when you want to Italicize that font you click the "Italic icon". When you do this word uses the "PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic" font . So in other words technically there are 2 different fonts, as the Italicize version gives the font a very different look cause it's using a specific font.

Now here is where the problem lies when I converted the PDF, it seems the PDF maker looked at all the "PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic" fonts and instead made them "PalladioURWTOT-Medium" and then adobe went and slanted the font trying to iItalicize it. It therefore does not look at all like the original "PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic" and now I am at a loss as to what I can do in order to get Acrobat to recognize this.

Here is what I assume is happing. I noticed in word when I have a the Font selected in it says "PalladioURWTOT-Medium" as the selected font, of course as you can see below i have the Italic icon selected as well. Word2007 does not allow you to selected the actual name PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic since it already understands that when you hit the icon that it will automatically use the italic font.

ANy help or suggestions would be very much appreciated as this Issue has really cause some serious problems for me.

First, check the PDF to be sure the fonts were actually stored in the PDF. If not, use the print or press settings files, not the standard settings (generally does not embed fonts).

I check under properties and it says:

PalladioURWTOT-Medium (embedded Subset). So no it never embeded during conversion the "PalladioURWTOT-MediumItalic" font set even though it was what was used in the Word document.

Yes PDF printer will do the conversion proper, however it defeats the whole purpose as it's critical that I have my document converted by the pdf maker since it allows the document to gain advance editing capability.

I wonder are there other 3rd party PDF converters that can match the official AdobePDF maker?

I did not say to use the Adobe PDF printer, but to select the print or press settings for the conversion. You may be using the Standard settings. However, as I understand it you did get the Med font to embed, but the Italic font is not listed at all? If so, then it sounds like something in your word processor, not Acrobat. As long as the font was sent to AA or at least indicated in use, it should be listed. Since it is not listed, it sounds like WORD was doing something else with the font and not using the Italic font.

In the issues such as this, the first goal is to track down where the problem is occurring. Acrobat often gets blamed for an issue with a word processor or the setup in the printer (or PDF Maker). I do not see that the problem has been isolated yet. For the fonts, PDF Maker and the Adobe PDF printer should give the same results (at least as long as the same printer settings were selected). Since you say the printer worked correctly, that suggests issues with the settings in PDF Maker.