On 14-01-19 03:16 PM, slideaway wrote: > I output a PDF and tried to open it in Illustrator CS5.1 of a Mac running > Mavericks 10.9.
I think there's still a belief in the open source community that PDFs are final display versions of documents. That was the original intent, until Adobe decide to bloat them up with reflowable content streams. > The file opens, but all the characters in the document are > rectangles with Xs through them. It pops up an error looking for DejaVuSans. The view I downloaded had the fonts correctly subsetted as DejaVuSans. They aren't re-encoded in any weird way. Adobe is really good at not following its own standards. > Now I don't particularly need the fonts to be editable, though it would be > handy. Is there some way around this? Open the SVG in Inkscape, and re-save it in one of the more reliable formats, maybe? cheers, Stewart _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
