On Tuesday 12 July 2005 03:03 pm, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > > What can go wrong with converting fonts to outlines? > > Will the final output suffer because of being converted to outlines? > > I am not a PDF/PS expert as Peter, but converting to outline is a last > and safe resort to avoid font problems in many cases. Converting to > outline is, AFAIK, nothing else but replacing the (complex) font data, > like metrics, family etc. with "simple" vectors. In your case, you > shouldn't expect any difficulties, because you are producing ads. > > It would be different if you were producing a book or a magazine with > large amounts of text. Then the RIP of the printer would probably have > to run on a mainframe, because it had to calculate hundreds of thousands > of vector graphics. In this case, embedded/stored fonts come in handy, > because the font data are stored in one place. That's at least how > professional printers explained the problem to me. > > Cheers, > > Christoph
Thanks for the explanation. At least I have an option if my printer can't handle fonts. Wayne
