I fear simple including the PS fonts into the PDF won't help here. Illustrator is not able to use fonts embedded in the document, only the system fonts. You may try to install the TeX PS fonts into Windows...
Stanislav Kneifl. Don Simons wrote: > I doubt that I can help you. But I'd like to understand your question > better. I don't know what you mean by "character contours." I put the > phrase into Google didn't get anything that looked relevant. My > understanding is that postscript fonts are in fact based on vectorized > descriptions of shapes (as contrasted with bitmaps). That sounds like a > :character contour" to me. Could the printer possibly be asking for you to > use postscript fonts? Were you using postscript fonts? If so, for both the > text AND music fonts? And did you embed the fonts in the pdf? I can > imagine that if you did not embed the fonts, and if someone didn't have them > installed, that when he viewed the pdf he might just see ordinary letters > where music font characters are supposed to be. > > As for editing pdf's, my understanding is that only limited text editing is > possible, and no layout changes are possible at all. But I'm completely > unfamiliar with Adobe Illustrator. Can it do more serious editing on a pdf? > > --Don Simons > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >>Behalf Of Andre Van Ryckeghem >>Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:18 AM >>To: TeX-music >>Subject: [TeX-music] from ps -> pdf -> eps with adobe illustrator >> >> >>Hi all, >> >>I was been asked by a printing office that was willing to layout the >>Mechelaere mass (see icking site) for a pdf file, but: >> >>The person works with Mac and wants my pdf file to edit with >>illustrator for >>making small corrections. >>He wants the fonts with 'character contours'. >> >>The best thing i can do is making the pdf with destiller, but then the >>musicnote fonts are substituted by character fonts in illustrator. >> >>Is there anybody who is willing to help me for the choice of the fonts, >>installing them and the procedure to make the 1 page eps files >>(for making >>caterns)? >> >>Or point me to a place where i can learn this? >> >> >>Thank you very much >>Andre Van Ryckeghem >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TeX-music mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >> > > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
