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Jan 25, 2005, 3:39:36 AM1/25/05
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From: "albert" <alb...@albertepping.com>
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We provide a client of us with forms, exported from as pdf's. As a design-firm, we make them on a mac, using Quark XPress as a design-tool, and use a type1-font (FF Meta).
Some forms are likely to change in detail, and for every change the client has to call us to implement that change. This process has proven to be a bit tedious for us and the client.
These changes could well be implemented by the client itself, using the touch-up tool in Acrobat, if it weren't the case that in their office environment they are using the same font (FF Meta), but the truetype instead of the type1. When they attempt to edit the pdf, they get the message "Warning: you cannot edit in this font".
Is there a workaround and let Acrobat use the embedded (type1) font? Or is there any Windows-application that's not really that much bothered about font-licenses?
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We provide a client of us with forms, exported from as pdf's. As a design-firm, we make them on a mac, using Quark XPress as a design-tool, and use a type1-font (FF Meta).
Some forms are likely to change in detail, and for every change the client has to call us to implement that change. This process has proven to be a bit tedious for us and the client.
These changes could well be implemented by the client itself, using the touch-up tool in Acrobat, if it weren't the case that in their office environment they are using the same font (FF Meta), but the truetype instead of the type1. When they attempt to edit the pdf, they get the message "Warning: you cannot edit in this font".
Is there a workaround and let Acrobat use the embedded (type1) font? Or is there any Windows-application that's not really that much bothered about font-licenses?
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Jan 25, 2005, 4:51:00 AM1/25/05
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From: "isaacs" <isa...@adobe.com>
At 1/24/2005 01:39 PM, p-pdf-general Listmanager wrote:
>From: "albert" <alb...@albertepping.com>
As you apparently are aware, to use the text touch-up tool in Acrobat
for editing a particular text string, you must have the font in which
that text is formatted installed on the system on which the editing is
occurring. This is true even if the full font is embedded (so much
for the "bubbameiser" that full font embedding somehow makes touch-up
possible or easier!). Thus, if you create a PDF file using the "FF Meta"
Type 1 font on the Macintosh, you need to have the "FF Meta" Type 1 font
installed on any system, Macintosh or Windows, that attempts to edit
text via text touch-up in Acrobat. A TrueType version of that font will
not suffice since that is in fact a different font.
Enfocus PitStop Professional, a third-party plug-in for Acrobat has
a similar restriction.
The developer of "any Windows-application that's not really that much
bothered about font-licenses" and possibly users of such software are
likely to find themselves at the wrong end of lawsuits from one or more
font foundries. As such, I don't think that you will find such software
readily available.
- Dov
At 1/24/2005 01:39 PM, p-pdf-general Listmanager wrote:
>From: "albert" <alb...@albertepping.com>
>
>We provide a client of us with forms, exported from as pdf's. As a design-firm, we make them on a mac, using Quark XPress as a design-tool, and use a type1-font (FF Meta).
>Some forms are likely to change in detail, and for every change the client has to call us to implement that change. This process has proven to be a bit tedious for us and the client.
>These changes could well be implemented by the client itself, using the touch-up tool in Acrobat, if it weren't the case that in their office environment they are using the same font (FF Meta), but the truetype instead of the type1. When they attempt to edit the pdf, they get the message "Warning: you cannot edit in this font".
>Is there a workaround and let Acrobat use the embedded (type1) font? Or is there any Windows-application that's not really that much bothered about font-licenses?
Albert,
>We provide a client of us with forms, exported from as pdf's. As a design-firm, we make them on a mac, using Quark XPress as a design-tool, and use a type1-font (FF Meta).
>Some forms are likely to change in detail, and for every change the client has to call us to implement that change. This process has proven to be a bit tedious for us and the client.
>These changes could well be implemented by the client itself, using the touch-up tool in Acrobat, if it weren't the case that in their office environment they are using the same font (FF Meta), but the truetype instead of the type1. When they attempt to edit the pdf, they get the message "Warning: you cannot edit in this font".
>Is there a workaround and let Acrobat use the embedded (type1) font? Or is there any Windows-application that's not really that much bothered about font-licenses?
As you apparently are aware, to use the text touch-up tool in Acrobat
for editing a particular text string, you must have the font in which
that text is formatted installed on the system on which the editing is
occurring. This is true even if the full font is embedded (so much
for the "bubbameiser" that full font embedding somehow makes touch-up
possible or easier!). Thus, if you create a PDF file using the "FF Meta"
Type 1 font on the Macintosh, you need to have the "FF Meta" Type 1 font
installed on any system, Macintosh or Windows, that attempts to edit
text via text touch-up in Acrobat. A TrueType version of that font will
not suffice since that is in fact a different font.
Enfocus PitStop Professional, a third-party plug-in for Acrobat has
a similar restriction.
The developer of "any Windows-application that's not really that much
bothered about font-licenses" and possibly users of such software are
likely to find themselves at the wrong end of lawsuits from one or more
font foundries. As such, I don't think that you will find such software
readily available.
- Dov
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