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Harry, The real question comes down to what you REALLY have installed on your system. One of the big problems of Windows and print drivers is that legacy of "printer resident fonts." If a particular printer driver reports back to the operating system that it has "Times" as a font, the operating system reports to the application that "Times" is available, regardless of whether it is installed on the host computer at all. If the application requests "Times," the operating tries to "fake it" for display purposes. However, if you subsequently try to print to another printer that doesn't have Times as a resident font, you get whatever the substitution the printer calls for or possible job failure. I suspect that this is exactly what is happening in your case. Times nor any member of that family are "resident fonts" of Adobe Acrobat Distiller. However, you formatted the document with the "current printer" being a device that has such fonts "resident." Solution to the overall problem is two steps: (1) Fix all your PPD files for PostScript printers to show only one font as resident, Courier. Instructions for this can be found on the Adobe User-to-User Forums at: <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ef4dc6a> Read the ENTIRE posting. The comments at the bottom of that posting are relevant here. Unfortunately, there is nothing that you can do to prevent the Hewlett-Packard PCL drivers from reporting back their resident font information. (2) Simply never format text with a font unless that font is fully and properly installed on your system AND the End User License Agreement for the font permits at least "preview and print" embedding of the font in EPS, PDF, and PostScript. If it is a TrueType or OpenType font, you must also ascertain that the font's embedding permissions match the license. - Dov At 12/14/2003 07:42 AM, Harry Gilbert wrote: >Yes, I'm running into these "strange results". I have a file generated >in Ventura Publisher 5, which I pulled into Ventura Publisher 8 with no >problems when printing to an HP Laser printer (using PCL) or viewing >onscreen under Windows XP Pro. When converting to PDF using Acrobat >6.0.1 Professional, quite a bit of the text came out converted from >Times to Courier -- but this seemed to be random, and included just some >lines within a paragraph! Other parts of the paragraph were rendered in >some version of Times. When using PitStop Pro to globally correct this >by grabbing the "Times" as a destination font, I got the message that >there's no "Times" on my system, yet it was grabbed from within the PDF. > >So how does one go about fixing this? I have the standard assortment of >fonts that come with Windows, which includes the "Times New Roman" >family. Where in the workflow do I change the reference to "Times" to >"Times New Roman"? > >Harry Gilbert >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Since Acrobat 4, there as been no real concept of "base fonts" for >Acrobat and PDF. >All fonts should be embedded, no "ifs", "ands", or "buts" about it. > >If you have a PDF file referencing "Times Italic" but not embedded, >Acrobat 6 and Adobe >Reader 6 will attempt to find "Times Italic" on your system. If not >installed, it attempts >to find "Times New Roman Italic" and substitute that. Failing that, it >attempts to use >its built-in Adobe Serif font. Of course, if your PDF file was created >with a font named >"Times Italic" but with some oddball encoding or modification from the >original Times >Italic font used by Adobe, by not having the font embedded you could end >up with >rather strange results. > > > > >To change your subscription: >http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
