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Started by monica_conaghan
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:21
Distiller failed to PDF a .ps file. Arial not found, using Courier.
Author: monica_conaghan
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:21
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:21
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Lately I have been getting an error Arial not found using courier when I try and Distill using any of the job options. I am printing to file from Wordperfect, Pagemaker, and Word. I have no choice in changing it to a more sophisticated program, as I work in a organisation that needs to edit documents in Word afterwards. Can anyone help me with how to get distiller to actually make a PDF? I am using Windows XP, have CS3 Suite loaded, Adobe Pagemaker 7.0, ATM 4.1 lite, LIB: 5.1 Buikd 226, DRIVER: 5.1 Build 226 I use truetype fonts, Symbol fonts and postscript fonts. ATM does not have Arial listed as active, would this be it? What does Create multiple masters mean in ATM?? Does this have anything to do with PostScript Font Metrics Files (.PFM,.MMM) ??? PLEASE HELP.
Re: Distiller failed to PDF a .ps file. Arial not found, using Courier.
Author: Mike Kazlow
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:09
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:09
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ATM will not create Arial if it is not there. You must re-install ut. Multiple Masters was a wonderful, but now abandoned technology that allowed you to create or have fonts of with different features from a single master font. For example they could have different optical sizes or weights. I believe this was some of the technology behind the automatic font substitution in Acrobat when a font is was not embedded in a pdf file and not available on the viewers system. Mike
Re: Distiller failed to PDF a .ps file. Arial not found, using Courier.
Author: monica_conaghan
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:32
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:32
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But Mike, the Arial font is already loaded on the system and recognised by all packages. It is truetype and only open type fonts are being recognised in ATM. Is there a open type font of Arial?
Re: Distiller failed to PDF a .ps file. Arial not found, using Courier.
Author: Dominic_Hurley
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:46
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:46
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only open type fonts are being recognised in ATM
ATM Light installs only Type 1, multiple master, and OpenType fonts, because at the time it came out these were not natively supported by Windows. However, XP does support T1 and OT fonts, so many people using that OS find no need for ATM Light at all (very few people use MM fonts these days, though as Mike says, they remain part of Acrobat's technology).
Have you checked that c:\Windows\fonts is listed under Settings>Font Locations in Distiller and that Arial has not been set to not embed?
Re: Distiller failed to PDF a .ps file. Arial not found, using Courier.
Author: monica_conaghan
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:05
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:05
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Umm, I can only see opent type fonts in ATM. I have chneged the location to C:\\Windows\Fonts and instructed it to embed arial. I am trying to make a pdf from a Corel wordperfect and it is still substituing Arial for courier...like it is instructed to ignore the PDF Settings.
Re: Distiller failed to PDF a .ps file. Arial not found, using Courier.
Author: Herb
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:09
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:09
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Monica This would seem to be an Acrobat problem, not ATM. Once fonts are installed, ATM has nothing to do with what fonts are available to what applications. Are you using Adobe's pdf creation or the one built in to Corel WordPerfect? What's the actual process you're going through? - Herb
Re: Distiller failed to PDF a .ps file. Arial not found, using Courier.
Author: monica_conaghan
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:52
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:52
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Around of Applause...I have been grappling with this with the organisations IT for six weeks. And in one morning I have been able to fix it the Corel Problem from the above advice....Thank you is not enough. I was printing to Adobe Printer within corel and amending the settings, but failed to add arial to embed within Corel. Lengthy process but glad it works.
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