Bold font is not shown in pdf output from word

I don't have an ink printer, so I can't test. The only thing I know for sure: when I use the ms office pdf print option, it eats my bold formating, when I use bullzip pdf printer, all comes out nicely as it should.

No clue how this can happen, but I am thankful for any help!

Could you share an example file with the forum? Upload the file to Dropbox or OneDrive, make it public, and post a link in this thread.

Hi Stefan,

Here is an example:

http://1drv.ms/1s3RqL3

both pdfs were rended using the same program, pdf xchange. the good one resulting from bullzip pdf print, the bad one from the office pdf printer....

Thanks!

I had this exact problem too and realised why. I was using a "semi-light" font (it had the word "semi-light" in its name). Word will therefore not recognise it as bold when you export it to PDF because it already has a pre-defined weight, with that weight being "semi-light". In order to make it work, you need to change the font to the normal version and bold that (e.g. change it from 'Leelawadee UI Semilight' to 'Leelawadee UI').

Hope this helped :)

I had this exact problem too and realised why. I was using a "semi-light" font (it had the word "semi-light" in its name). Word will therefore not recognise it as bold when you export it to PDF because it already has a pre-defined weight, with that weight being "semi-light". In order to make it work, you need to change the font to the normal version and bold that (e.g. change it from 'Leelawadee UI Semilight' to 'Leelawadee UI').

Hope this helped :)

Same problem, same font. I started wondering why this happened since I tried with other PDF printers aswell and they all had this flaw. (yet it was displayed correctly when exporting). Thanks for the hint. That really helped me