Some of the VFR charts printed by JeppView for Windows incorrectly display various letters on the map. This is especially visible in the NDB/DME designations ("INN", "PAT", "RUM" all rendered incorrectly):
How can I make sure all the text in the chart is displayed correctly?
JeppView uses different proprietary fonts in its charts. If they are not embedded when the chart is saved to PDF, lettering will not display correctly.
On a Mac, running in the terminal
strings ~/Desktop/vfr_chart.pdf | grep FontName
returns the names of these fonts:
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-7-Jeppesen-Proprietary-Y
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-3-Jeppesen-Proprietary-U
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-5-Jeppesen-Proprietary-W
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-4-Jeppesen-Proprietary-V
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-6-Jeppesen-Proprietary-X
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-13-Jeppesen-Proprietary-C
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-80-Jeppesen-Proprietary-N
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-79-Jeppesen-Proprietary-M
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-77-Jeppesen-Proprietary-Y-B
/FontName /FNTSBS+Arial-BoldMT
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-11-Jeppesen-Proprietary-A
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-1-Jeppesen-Proprietary-S
/FontName /FNTSBS+FT-3-Jeppesen-Proprietary-U
If these fonts are not installed on another computer, some lettering will not be rendered correctly, as your PDF viewer will attempt to use the next best fonts. I have not had any luck with manually installing these fonts on computers that do not have JeppView installed, so I instead recommend:
Always embed the fonts when exporting charts to PDF. The tool that comes with JeppView is NovaPDF. When printing (=exporting to PDF), toggle the option "PDF/A-1b" in the dialog window. The resulting PDF charts will display correctly on any device:
