Dash lines causing weird PDF

Hi, I have this FREEHAND MX file which uses the font DAX
(converted to paths). There is a dashed line in the layout.
After exporting the file as MACINTOSH EPS, I have distilled
it on ADOBE DISTILLER 6.0.
In the PDF file all the "I" and "L" letters became dashed.
Most weird of all, if I use different patterns of dash for that
line, the "I" and "L" letters immitate it.
The same MACINTOSH EPS can be rasterized in PHOTOSHOP. In
that case, with normal results.
I can send JPEGs illustrating the effect, if anyone wants it.
Thank you for any ideas.

Albird wrote:
> The same MACINTOSH EPS that generates the weird PDF
could be imported to
> ILLUSTRATOR CS2 and saved as PDF without any problems,
so I think that's my
> solution for now.
I looked at your files. That has to be one of the strangest
thing I've ever
seen in FH. The same thing happens here when printing to
Postscript file and
Distilling. It looks like a striped fill rather than a dashed
stroke is
being applied, but as you say, it picks up the size of the
dashes in the
stroke.
I'm glad the AI CS2 route works for you. I had saved the FH
file back to
FH9, opened that in Illustrator 10 and saved as PDF. The same
striped
letters were present in the PDF!
A few things corrected the error -- making each line of
lettering into a
composite path, or changing the dashed stroke to a solid
stroke, or changing
the fill of the lettering to a different color, or distorting
the shape of
the letters.
Because the letters affected are perfect rectangles which, in
the font
creation software, may have been drawn with a rectangle tool,
they may have
some kind code attached that conflicts with FH's Postscript
code for dashes.
Does this happen every time you use this font?
Have you seen this happen with any other font?
It would be interesting to contact the font designer and let
him know what's
happening.
Judy Arndt

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