Apologies if this is obvious, but did you make sure to remove the OTF version of Times New Roman from your system?
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 17 Jan 2011, at 5:21 PM, Andrew Parks wrote: > Yeah, I'm the one who asked last week about fi/fl ligatures in Open Type > fonts. To review: Windows 7/64 bit, Fin2011; font is Times New Roman. > > We've given up trying to make it work in Open Type. Now, we're trying it with > the PostScript version of TNR. This is a big (many pages) book with a large > print run, and the printers I've worked with strongly encourage PS text fonts. > > I have the TNR Expert font (which contains the fl/fi ligatures). I've > installed it according to Windows 7 instructions and can see it in my > \Windows\Fonts directory. When I insert an fi or fl ligature character in my > Finale file, I can see it on screen. But it won't print... either to my PS > printer or to a PDF file; all I get is a blank spot where the character is > supposed to be. > > Contacted Finale support and they had me export to an EPS file and then > distill it (I was earlier just using the Adobe PDF printer driver in the > Print menu). It errored out, with the following error message: > > %%[ Error: not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%% > %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%% > > Stack: > /Font > / > > > %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% > %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% > Distill Time: 00 Hour(s) : 00 Minute(s) : 00.78 Second(s) > > Other than that, they had no ideas. Contacted the font vendor and struck out > there as well. > > One final bit of information: I get the same behavior in MS Word (2003), but > it *does* work (print and PDF) in QuarkXpress 8.x. > > Any PostScript font gurus out there? Sorry about the long post. > > --Andy Parks > Green Bay, WI > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
