Now this is example of why I hang with the list, overlooking the bloviating discussion that seems to have overwhelmed the original exchange of information.
I have rushed to my InDesign disc, to learn these features, many thanks, Betty. Image quality was really fine with my voodoo improvisation in Photoshop, but this promises to be even better. The diacritical requirements are the háček, etc, of Czech and Slovak, plus correspondence with Hungarian, Polish, Lithuanian accents needed. On the matter of battery life in mobil phones, you are dead-on: overseas, my batteries last forever, here, they deplete rapidly. Thanks for a cogent analysis of our sad-sack wireless situation (fewer bars in more places). --- On Fri, 1/30/09, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: From: b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Scanned To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 2:32 PM When I create PDFs from Adobe InDesign, one of the choices is to embed the fonts. I think that Apple's Print to PDF embeds fonts by default. I've had problems with Distiller, mostly because there were too many check boxes to remember. Haven't used it in a long time, but suggest to be very careful which choices you select. Using InDesign or other PostScript layout program is helpful, but it's possible to save the letterhead as a PDF [with embedded preview] then use it as a background in a word processor like Word or Pages, instead of Photoshop [the image in the word processor will be a JPEG]. Photoshop rasterizes fonts rather than embedding font data, i.e. they're pictures of fonts only in the size they are on in that file, rather than the actual fonts. InDesign will embed font data for all sizes of the font in less KB/MB than the picture of the fonts. Do you need InDesign for your business? Maybe, if it's important to send your images to make them look their best. That can be done by creating the file with InDesign, and exporting to PDF. I prefer Quark XPress, but it's much more expensive, and extremely user hostile, although with excellent results. InDesign will always look better than any word processor or files created in Photoshop, and natively exports PDFs. Which diacriticals do you need? [need umlaut, cedilla accent, circumflex, kroužek,, caron, etc?] Install the fonts for the language you want to display/embed. If you use a Mac, its in the International system prefs, although many diacriticals are in standard fonts. Betty ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
