Randomly occuring corruption in PDF export.
Two variations of this issue. Both occur when processed by a Fiery RIP. Screen Preview and PitStop show nothing wrong.
1) PDF starts to RIP, but partway through it fails.
2) PDF RIPs, but (some) sections of text containing ligatures are substituted for completely wrong glyphs.
In both cases, re-RIPing the same PDF gets the same error, but exporting a new PDF solves it. (It occasionally takes more than one attempt at re-exporting)
We also use Xmpie to generate personalized letters, and the glyph error text issue will start at some increment of 100 records and last exactly 100 records before resolving itself and printing correctly.
This behavior is new, staring when we updated to InDesign 19.#
Since discovering the glyph substitution issue was only happening to blocks of text that had ligatures, I've started disabling them in our files. I've only been doing so for about a week, but so far I haven't seen that issue happen again, though the exported PDFs still occasionally fail to RIP entirely.
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Encountered another instance of this happening, this time, apparently caused by non-breaking space characters at the end of two lines. (Only two lines had these hidden characters and they were the only two lines that glitched.)
As this was an Xmpie personalized letter, the glitch happened in the middle of a PDF of approximately 1000 records, with exactly 100 records containing the error and the rest of the records printing correctly.
