Unable to embed protected font

[Kelvin Hay]

I have problem when using TT Fonts, in that when trying to save the doc, an error message appers stating "UNABLE TO EMBED THE FONT. PROTECTED FONTS CANNOT BE EMBEDED.

[Kelvin Hay]

I have problem when using TT Fonts, in that when trying to save the doc, an error message appers stating "UNABLE TO EMBED THE FONT. PROTECTED FONTS CANNOT BE EMBEDED. Any idears as to how to still use these fonts or switch off the protection.

[LenHewitt]

Kelvin,

Not all font foundries allow their fonts to be embedded and include code
within the font to prevent this.

You can still use the font, just not embed it for transfer of the document
for use in another application on another machine that does not have the
font installed. Converting text to outlines is the way round this.

Sometimes these messages are also spurious. Deleting all occurrences of
adobefnt*.lst on your machine may help in these cases.

[Teri Pettit]

Also, if you don't need the font to be embedded, you can simply turn off the Embed Fonts option in the Save As dialog, which will allow you to save your document and still have editable text. (It is not clear from your question whether you wanted to embed the font, or whether you just wanted to save the file without the warning appearing.)

[Kelvin Hay]

I do need to embed the fonts, i meed to be able to send a document to different machines and different applications with the right fonts showing. Is there anyway round this? I know some are protected but the ones i'm using i'm pretty sure are not

Thanks

[BobHill]

Kelvin,

If you are unable to embed the fonts, have you considered converting all text to outlines, which will preserve their appearance without having the font files?

Bob

[Teri Pettit]

Does the warning alert tell you which fonts it thinks are protected?

If not, use the Find Fonts.. dialog to see which fonts are used in the file. It might be that the file contains more fonts than you think it does, and the warning is coming up about one that you didn't know was in use. (Sometimes, e.g., fonts will be assigned to space characters or to empty text objects, and they're still considered "in use".)

[Kelvin Hay]

The warning says "unable to embed the font" then "protected fonts cannot be embedded" for one of the fonts i'm using.

The warning also says "an unknown problem has occured
protected fonts cannot be embedded" this is refering to myriad which i don't usually have any problem with.

if i have to convert all text to outlines do i lose quality?

[superfuzin]

Or have you tried to just install the font(s) on the other machines or include the font on the disk you are using. Its kinda an extra step, but ya wont have those problems no more. Thats what i had to do. I have about 5+ machines here that need to view the illustrator files i use, so i just copied the entire font directory onto all the machines. Its helped for using all the other editing programs as well.

[Ian A. Wright]

Kelvin:

Try converting all fonts to outlines in a copy of that file. Your text may lose some hinting but a lot depends on the font used.

A font manufacturer can assign "protection" to a font so it cannot be "shared". You don't say what font is causing the message. In the initial message you talk about a TrueType font -- then you mention Myriad which is copyright to Adobe and probably a Type One font ...? Have you done what Teri asked you? Maybe you should check ALL your fonts to find if any are corrupt. There's no need to repeat your first message through the thread.

[Kelvin Hay]

Doesn't creating outlines make the file size larger? Also, i cant install the fonts on all the computers that need them as they are in different offices. It tells me which fonts are protected in the message! How do i know if they are corrupt? and what do i do if they are?

[Ian A. Wright]

Kelvin:

You're continuing to ask questions without responding to the suggestions already made. Please do so first.