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Let me add, in my experience, contrary to what is stated in the above link ("Donald Gruener," etc.), many Open Type fonts don't work AT ALL in PageMaker. The basic characters of the alphabet appear as boxes with x's in them when you convert the PageMaker file to a pdf.

Two further comments.

(1) I just had 3300 copies of a 400+ page perfect-bound trade paperback printed at Thomson-Shore in Michigan (a first-rate book printer). I used an Open Type font (Arno) converted to True Type via FontCreator, as described above. The book is printed on Nature's Natural stock, and the font looks gorgeous.

(2) A further "trick" you can do with FontCreator to take advantage of Open Type fonts in PageMaker is to create special character fonts, for characters built into the font that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to access via PageMaker (although presumably easy to access in InDesign). Thus, I set up an Arno small caps font (i.e., true small caps), and a superscript font (again, true superscripts; this particular book has some 1700 footnotes).

I created these specialty sub-fonts in FontCreator by simultaneously opening up (i) Arno and (ii) a blank font. Then I copied and pasted the special characters from Arno into the blank font, and saved it with an appropriate name (e.g., ArnoSmallCaps). For example, for the superscript numbers, I copied the Arno superscripts and pasted them into the standard numbers of the blank font -- but once that specialty font was installed, when I keyed those numbers in, they would appear as true superscript numbers.

Again, this is my own personal experience; if you decide to try this approach, proceed at your own risk. I note that before printing the actual book, I did a test "press proof" with Thomson-Shore for about $300, that uses the same offset printing process as their regular books. When the converted font worked in the press proof, I knew it would work for the book itself.