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Janine,
Better read your fonts' EULAs (End User License Agreements). Many if not most EULAs
for fonts that prohibit embedding also prohibit your use of the font via "convert to
outline" or "convert to raster" operations as well! You might be "getting around" the
fsType flag in a TrueType or OpenType font, but you would still be in actual violation
of the fonts' licenses! A much better solution would be to license fonts without such
onerous and stupid licensing restrictions!
- Dov
At 11/4/2003 08:57 AM, Janine Libke wrote:
>You can't always embed the fonts out of ID. I'm in OS9.2 and take OSX files
>quite often. When I export or distill, even with my settings set to embed,
>I often get the message that the fonts can't be embedded due to licensing
>restrictions. The ONLY solution I have found is to outline the fonts.
>
>> From: Dov Isaacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:31:42 -0800
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Cc: Bamouh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: [PDF] PDF and Indesign vs Quark
>>
>> At 11/4/2003 08:14 AM, Bamouh wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The main purpose of PDF is to maintain format and fonts when documents are
>>> moved from one computer to another. Working on the pc and transferring file
>>> to the mac always runs into problems with fonts especially for DTP files. I
>>> just found out that with indesign you can transform fonts to outlines before
>>> saving as PDF or EPS. Quark doesn't.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> --
>>> ---------------
>>> Dr Ahmed Bamouh
>>
>>
>> There is no good reason whatsoever to "transform fonts to outlines before
>> saving as PDF or EPS" from InDesign! Such transformations generally degrade
>> the graphic quality of whatever is subsequently displayed or printed and
>> really doesn't accomplish anything positive, unless of course you are trying
>> to print to a buggy and/or obsolete RIP. Fonts should be embedded in exported
>> EPS or PDF from InDesign for highest fidelity, searchability of PDF, PDF
>> touch-up, and PDF repurposability!
>>
>> - Dov
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