Displaying text in "uninstalled" font?

[jef...@yahoo.com]

Dear all,

If I take the following postscript-file:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
/Arial findfont
15 scalefont
setfont
72 200 moveto
(text) show
showpage

then it nicely displays the "text" in Arial, if opening in Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tryout.

But I want it to display in Myriad Pro, so I should change the findfont-command:

/Myriad-Pro findfont

or something like that. However, this gives rise to the error:

Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted.

Of course, Myriad Pro IS installed in AI CS6.

Please note that it is NOT an option to change the font in AI, I want this to be incorporated in the postscript file (which is programmatically generated by myself). I checked the manuals (Bluebook, Language Specification,...) but could not find it. Probably I'm overlooking something.

Could anyone offer me some help please?

Thanks very much in advance,
Jef

[Rod Dorman]

In article <81efedba-9097-4e4b...@googlegroups.com>,

Are you sure the PostScript FontName is Myriad-Pro?

They'll often have suffixes like -Book or -Regular.

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[zup...@googlemail.com]

The original Type 1 font is called /Myriad-Roman (see the AFM file[1]). Myriad Pro is (AFAIK) the OpenType version of this font. I'd expect that AI comes with the OpenType version. Is it clever enough to map the PostScript name to the OpenType font?

Thomas W.


[1] ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/900-960/906/wmr_____.afm

[Helge Blischke]

The Adobe supplied font is a Type1 coded open type font, and the PostScript
names are
MyriadPro-xxxx, where xxxx is one of
Regular
Bold
It
BoldIt
(as delivered with Adobe Reader 9 e.g.).

Helge

[jef...@yahoo.com]

Thank you all! My problem was solved.

It is indeed sufficient to use MyriadPro-Regular.

I have to learn quite a lot, clearly...

Thank you once again for helping me out so quickly, and providing these interesting references!

Greetings,
Jef