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"Graham Douglas" <g.douglas@readytext.co.uk> wrote in message news:<b5l508$bb9$1@hercules.btinternet.com>...
> Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> wrote in message
> news:21MAR03.18275621@psfc.mit.edu...
> > I create PDF files using PDFLATEX.  Acrobat reader views these files
>  fine, and
> > I look at the font list, and it shows that the TeX fonts are
>  embedded.  But
> > Illustrator can't see them.  It says Missing Type 1 fonts,
>  reencoding foreign
> > fonts, which of course makes the output look awful.  I've tried this
>  on both
> > PC and mac platforms, and created the PDF files on several different
>  TeX
> > configurations.   How can I install the fonts on a PC so that
>  Illustrator
> > knows about them?  Thanks.
> >
> > Mark London
> > MRL@PSFC.MIT.EDU
> 
> Hi Mark
> 
> There is a well-known problem with
> Illustrator/TeX Type 1 fonts -- it crops
> up on the comp.text.tex newsgroup.
> The root cause is, in my experience, because
> the TeX  Type 1 fonts use characters in the
> 0--31 region -- which Illustrator cannot
> cope with, it seems.
> 
> I ran into this Illustrator problem using
> MetaPost -- MetaPost's PostScript
> is quite simple and without any TeX fonts
> Illustrator opens/parses it just fine.
> Once you add text to the MetaPost graphics
> Illustrator cannot open it properly -- it does
> open/parse the code but completely screws the text.
> 
> There are some TeX virtual fonts which are
> designed to deal with this Illustrator problem
> but I've never used them. Ask on comp.text.tex.
> 
> Another, messy, workaround is to manually reencode the
> PFB files to remove (remap) the characters in
> the 0--31 region to higher positions in the encoding
> vector. You also need to create new PFMs. I did this
> to fix my MetaPost problem and it worked -- I
> could open MetaPost .eps in Illustrator and see the
> maths/text. I also had to fix the MetaPost PostScript
> to remap the character strings. Altogether horrendous
> and not really recommended.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Graham

Hi Graham

Isn't there a possibility to just convert the pfm and pfb files of the
CM-fonts to TrueType, or something Illustrator understands, and if
there is which tools must I use ?

Best Regards

Greg