OT: Creating PDFs, an Adobe Distiller question

[gooddogcomics at mac.com]

Thank you for your help.  Yes, I tried embedding all fonts.  However, 
at work we took a field trip to a prominent printer in Michigan who 
prints the publications we produce.  I'd forgotten one of the people 
told us they deal exclusively with PDF's for their work, and require us 
to send them all art in this format.

I called and talked with one of the help desk people, and he told me 
that the reason Skia was  not embedding in my document was because it 
was a System Font, not a Printer Font.  He said they run into this 
problem occasionally.

When we took the project to my fiance's work and tried it on her flat 
panel iMac, it worked fine because she had the Skia font as a Printer 
Font.

For what it's worth, that's what I learned.

Thanks.

Mark

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 02:02 AM, iBook List wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 02:50:41 -0500
> Subject: [P1] OT:  Creating PDFs , an Adobe Distiller question
> From: gooddogcomics at mac.com
> Message-Id: <06D3D8DB-BB50-11D7-9A02-003065F1EDA0 at mac.com>
>
> In using Adobe Distiller to create a PDF, how do you add a font so the
> PDF is created using a font you want?  We keep trying to make a PDF but
> distiller substitutes Courier for Skia.  When we try to add Skia via
> the job options menu selection, we STILL end up with Courier.
>
> We probably don't know where to put the fonts so the computer can find
> them.  We're a bit in over our heads.  I figured this out a while ago,
> but since I don't have to use it all the time, I'm stumped now.  I
> can't find any reference material, book or online, that describes this
> process.
>
> We're working with Acrobat 4 in Classic on the latest build of Jaguar.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> We're working on our Wedding Announcement, and the Quark file was
> getting way too big, so we wanted to make a high-res PDF to chop down
> the size.  We were able to create the cover as a PDF, but when we got
> to the inside of the card where the text is, we were stopped.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:05:55 -0800
> Subject: Re: [P1] OT:  Creating PDFs , an Adobe Distiller question
> From: Brian Lim/EchoGrafika <brianlim at qinet.net>
> Message-ID: <BB4EED60.25B4%brianlim at qinet.net>
>
> Have you tried choosing "EMBED ALL FONTS" in the job options menu of
> Distiller? If you choose "Print Optimized" and change the job options, 
> you
> need set the changes under a different script name. Hope this helps.
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Brian Michael Lim
> Principal / EchoGrafika