Re: [WinMac] Font Related Question
Chick Foxgrover(cfoxgrover[at]truenorth.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:03:24 -0500
The PDF does contain the the font information for printing and viewing the
PDF through a PDF application (reader or exchange for instance) but if the
PageMaker plug-in extracts the contents of the PDF and reads and renders
any layout information and translates it into PageMaker layout information
and creates PageMaker pages (and not simply "places" the PDF file like an
image file) then you will need to have the fonts available to print from
PageMaker. Perhaps even with a "placed" PDF depending on how PageMaker
writes the postscript for the driver at print time.
The font may even be "subsetted" which approximatelty means only those
characters that appear in the document are contained in the PDF and not the
entire character set.
>I have downloaded PDF files from the Gov't Printing Office(Created on
>Windows machine I assume) which our company(Macs) compiles and reprints
>for customers. This was done last year by my predecessor. He incurred
>problems and my experience has mirrored his.
>
>Using Pagemaker (6 and/or 6.5) to compile the pages to print as a booklet.
>I have used the PDF plug in to import the content area directly from the
>PDF documents. I have checked my linking and all seems well there.
>
>As I understand it, the PDF should contain all fonts needed for
>display/printing etc. In fact, I have successfully printed the document at
>stages along the way(the same experience as the project last year).
>
>I am now getting a warning log during the print detailing that screen
>fonts are missing (MIonic and/or MIonic Italic). Ignoring this and
>printing yields a font substitution and loss of formatting with columns
>encroaching on each other.
>
>I did find an Ionic font as a result of a question on another list but it
>is IonicMT and apparently not acceptable to Pagemaker for the job.
>Yesterday I took the disk with the file to a local copy center which has
>computer rentals and tried the file in both their Mac(same results) and
>the Windows machine. The Windows Pagemaker did not seem to have the plug
>in for PDF so it printed the low res raster image of the page that had
>been placed.
>
>Last year staff went so far as to contact the GPO about the problem but NO
>solution was ever found. It just printed as it should have at some point
>for know discernible reason. At this point, I plan to try to find the PDF
>plug in for the Windows version of PM and give it another shot. My
>deadline is up. Anyone have ideas, suggestions, MIonic for the Mac?
>
>Regards,
>
>Joe Webb
>MIS
>
>___________________________________________________________
>Professional Waste Management - Disposal - Technical Services
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