Roger, Have you tried printing to pdf, using the Adobe PDF driver? I would suggest printing to a postscript file and manually Distilling it so you can see what is going on at stage.
Also,... > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shuttleworth, > Roger > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:00 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Distiller 7 missing fonts > > > Using FrameMaker 7.1 p116 and Acrobat Professional (Distiller) 7.0.7. > Windows XP SP2. > > > > I try to create a PDF from FrameMaker using File > Save as PDF. > Distiller fires up but fails to produce a PDF (because of my settings) > with the following message: > > > > %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% > > %%[ Error: GillSans not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%% > > %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%% > > > > The GillSans it refers to is installed on my system using ATM Lite. It's > a Type 1 PostScript produced by Adobe, file name GN___.pfm and .pfb. > There are a number of related fonts - the italic, bold, etc. I am not really up on Windows stuff but I thought you didn't have to use ATM to install fonts anymore, least ways I haven't since NT. The Fonts Control Panel provides an very nice interface for managing your fonts. It may be that ATM is putting the postscript files into a directory that Distiller is unaware of. > In Distiller the font locations are set to: > > > C:\PSFONTS\PFM\ > > C:\Windows\Fonts\ > > C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 7.0\Resource\Font\ > Well they look fairly standard :/ > And a couple of other places. > More than likely. > > > In Distiller's Adobe PDF Settings the Embed all fonts option is checked, > as is Subset embedded fonts when percent...is less than 100%. And "When > embedding fails" is set to Cancel job. > Have you Tried setting it to replace with another font? To confirm the file will print without it? > I removed and reinstalled the fonts from the original disk using ATM, > but the message still appears. In FrameMaker the paragraph formats using > these fonts are OK - i.e. the font is not greyed in the paragraph > designer. > Note the comment above. Cheers Alan -- Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
