|
I've also been using illustrator for fixing font
problems, but it's not ok for long automated publications. Better not to use
some of these problem fonts at all, or else use Fontographer to generate a new
font, but I'm not so clued up on that.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:28
AM
Subject: Re: [PDF] Acrocat 6 and Zapft
dingbat font
Hello,
Zapft dingbats font is one of the 14 base
fonts included in acrobat (and other adobe programs). I have been using
Illustrator to open PDF files for at least 10 years so I could add few things
to the file that are not possible in the original format (Wordpro). I do this
because I edit a newsletter that is printed on paper using Macintosh of my
printer. I work on a pc. The passage through Illustrator is important for me
because I can render the file as "outline" as to not have font problems. I
have been doing this until I run now on the Zapft dingbat problem.
I am
trying now to layout the newsletter in Quark and produce a PDF. I assume that
my printer could make plates from PDF? If not, opening the file on Quark Mac
would run again into font problems...
Dov Isaacs a �crit:
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com
__________________________________________________________________
At 10/15/2003 03:07 AM, Bamouh wrote:
Hello,
I use acrobat to transfer wordpro files to illustrator for further work on the file. Each time I upgrade to a different version of acrobat, for instanse 5, the zapft dingbat doesn't appear on illustrator. I solved this problem when moving to acrobat 5, by probably forcing the font to be embedded in the file, but I am not sure that was the fix.
Now moving to acrobat 6, the problem persists and embedding didn't' solve the problem.
Any suggestion?
Sincerely,
--
---------------
Dr Ahmed Bamouh
(1) Unless you actually have ITC Zapf Dingbats installed on your system (in your fonts directory or via ATM), Distiller cannot embed the font. ITC Zapf Dingbats is NOT included with Acrobat 6.
(2) Note that Adobe Illustrator is NOT, repeat NOT, repeat yet again NOT a general editor of PDF files. The only PDF files that can safely opened by Adobe Illustrator are those PDF files saved by Adobe Illustrator itself with the "save editability" option checked. In other cases, graphic elements and/or other aspects of your PDF file may be permanently lost or modified by simply opening and subsequently saving a PDF page in Adobe Illustrator!
- Dov
To change your subscription:
http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
--
---------------
Dr Ahmed Bamouh
Institut Agronomique et V�t�rinaire Hassan II
http://agriculture.ovh.org
T�l./Fax (212) 37 77 80 63
GSM 061 37 41 15
|
