My workflow for years has been to migrate my SU drawing to a Layout template, adjust the Layout file to my liking and export it to a PDF file. Since the recent SU Pro update, some of the fonts in the exported PDF file are not displaying properly - They are grossly enlarged and do not properly repre…

I guess try and print to PDF rather than export. Windows has to come in and save the day here?

Doesnt work for me since the PDF export reduced the quality of my opaque image in a strange and ugly way. This was using the Adobe PDF (professional) exporter/distiller, with the High Quality preset and the “version 8” compatibility (so it should support transparent raster images and colour). So t…

I did Identify there is an issue with the TAB character when used on multiline text. I replaced my Tabs with numerous Spaces and that solved my immediate problem. Might work for others? @adam any ETA on a fix for this?

I’m experiencing the same issues with my PDF exports. The pdfs are made with non-uniform font sizes and creates checkboxes where there should be bullet points. To clarify - the non-uniform font sizes appear to happen when in a List Format.

We believe we have fixed the tabbing issue in the latest patch release of LayOut. See the release notes here: SketchUp Desktop 2021.1.1 | SketchUp Help Thanks, Adam

Hasn’t solved this unfortunately :frowning_face: In Layout: [Screenshot 2021-06-29 210854] Export to PDF: [Screenshot 2021-06-29 210756]

[image] PaulMcAlenan: Hasn’t solved this unfortunately If this is the Bahnschrift font, I see this in other applications (word, Illustrator) too. Only the Regular weight seems to work.

It’s not - it’s Lexend. EDIT: Actually it’s Lexend Deca (there are other variants) But it also happens in Arial (I’ve posted about it). Release 21.0.391 (Win) was fine. 21.1.279 caused this issue and the latest patch doesn’t solve it. In Layout, Lexend & Arial: [Screenshot 2021-06-19 160808] …

It looks like a new release is out today to fix this.

I’ve installed the new release - it’s not fixed

Layout to PDF font issues

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PaulMcAlenan June 29, 2021, 8:10pm 28

Hasn’t solved this unfortunately

In Layout:

Export to PDF:

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