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Help... PDF with CID fonts from InDesign
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Amanda Tricase
Apr 28, 2003, 1:49:27 PM4/28/03
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Hi... I've received a PDF from a customer and a preflight of the files with pdfInspektor shows there are CID fonts embedded. This file appears to have been directly exported as a PDF from ID 2, rather than distilled. Is there anything we can do with this file to get it to rip? Saving as an eps from Acrobat and re-distilling...? Anything? It needs to be on the press yesterday... Thanks in advance...
Jeffrey Smith
Apr 28, 2003, 2:31:26 PM4/28/03
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Amanda, I've yet to hear of a work-around for a non-ripping CID font embedded PDF. Not to say that one doesn't exist, though. If this is a single page PDF, you could rasterize in Photoshop. If quality is an issue, you could rasterize vectors separately [at a higher rez] and contones a second time, then recompose the two... Or, have the customer resubmit a distilled PDF...
Larry
Apr 28, 2003, 2:36:39 PM4/28/03
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Don't know if it will help, but two things try:
1. If printing from Acrobat, deselect "Optimize for Speedy" in the print
dialog.
2. Place the PDF into a InDesign file, and Print/Rip from there.
Larry
Scott McCullough
Apr 28, 2003, 4:13:39 PM4/28/03
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>Place the PDF into a InDesign file, and Print/Rip from there.
That's worked for me on several occasions. I don't know why, but somehow InDesign packages the fonts in a way that they usually RIP. Give it a try....
Scott
Jens Schulze
Apr 29, 2003, 12:08:33 PM4/29/03
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"Amanda Tricase" wrote:
When you have tried the other tips, you could look if your RIP manufacturer
provides an update for the RIP, because CID fonts are part of the level 2
postscript definition, which is now around ten years old.
Jens
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