Fonts not embedding when exporting from InDesign CS

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6 total messages Started by Danni_Valdez Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:58

#267

Author: Danni_Valdez
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:58

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Does anyone have a similer problem as this? I am using a G3 with 1 GB of memory. When I first installed InDesign CS fonts embedded fine, but since the System upgrade to 10.3.3, and InDesign's upgrade to 3.0.1, random postscript fonts will not embed in the PDF. There will be no warning that there was a problem. The file will open on my machine, but when it gets to the newspaper, occasionally fonts will not be embedded and will have defaulted when printing. Here's another bizzare issue: As a work around, I drag the PDF into Illustrator CS to create outlines. When doing this, the stroke weight in the Illustrator file that was placed in InDesign increases to a much greater amount. Big, bloated, ugly strokes. Sometimes when attempting this, a greyscale photo will reverse out to a negative of the image. It is suspected that PDFs exported from InDesign CS are not Illustrator compatable. I am now using OSX 10.3.4. Has this upgrade fixed the problem?

Re: Fonts not embedding when exporting from InDesign CS

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Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:26

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>  occasionally fonts will not be embedded and will have defaulted when printing. 

How are you determining that they are not embedded, and what have they
defaulted to?

Aandi Inston

Re: Fonts not embedding when exporting from InDesign CS

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Author: Danni_Valdez
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:35

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I don't know what font they default to, but it's not the one that was used. Newspapers convert PDFs to EPSs through whatever imposition software they might use. I don't know if they got a font warning during conversion. We never got a call about it. The EPS that was placed in InDesign was what was affected in that instance. Within the EPS file placed in InDesign, the letters of words in individual text boxes were strewn all over the place in a different font. That font was good 'ol Helvetica Condensed Medium. Another situation was a text box created in InDesign defaulted to Courier. The Original font was ITC Cerigo. A font we've sent to many printing presses for brochures.

Re: Fonts not embedding when exporting from InDesign CS

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Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:45

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It's hard to be specific, but one important point is that a font never
goes to Courier just because it isn't embedded. There need to be
deeper problems. So I would recommend collecting all the detail you
can and seeing what the problems have in common.

Aandi Inston

Re: Fonts not embedding when exporting from InDesign CS

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Author: Danni_Valdez
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:18

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Thanks for the info. It's difficult to get any new details on this since I don't trust making making them this way. It's a trial by fire since I find out the hard way when they go wrong, i.e. when it's printed in the newspaper and it's too late. My work around is: exporting as EPS, placing EPS in Quark. printing a postscript file from that, and then Distilling the .ps file. It's the long way, but I can trust it. I know of another business that has the same problem. I have yet to go indepth with them on details. Do you have any shorter longcuts that are foolproof? This is my first day on the forum. Do you work for Adobe?

Re: Fonts not embedding when exporting from InDesign CS

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Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:16

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> Do you work for Adobe?

No, this isn't a route to tech support.


Aandi Inston

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