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Cliff

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Aug 7, 2001, 8:01:26 PM8/7/01
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Hi

I am sure I have read just recently a way to prevent Distiller
putting what appears to be a random set of letters in front of font
names. For the life of me I cannot find my copy of this information.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what settings need to be made in
Distiller to prevent this happening. (Or perhaps the setting is
elsewhere on my computer.)

I am running a Blue & White G3 with Mac OS 9.1.

Many thanks for any help.

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Dov Isaacs

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Aug 7, 2001, 8:51:17 PM8/7/01
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The short answer is that you cannot prevent that. There is
no such setting. Acrobat uses this notation (set of letters
in front of a "real" font name) for font subsets. The problem is
that if you export EPS from Acrobat embedding fonts in the EPS
file, place that EPS into other content, and distill, those
subsetted fonts already have the funny names from their
previous subsetting. And Acrobat continues to keep them distinct
from any other fonts in your new PDF file.

- Dov

At 8/7/2001 04:50 PM, Cliff wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am sure I have read just recently a way to prevent Distiller putting what appears to be a random set of letters in front of font names. For the life of me I cannot find my copy of this information.
>
>Can anyone enlighten me as to what settings need to be made in Distiller to prevent this happening. (Or perhaps the setting is elsewhere on my computer.)
>
>I am running a Blue & White G3 with Mac OS 9.1.
>
>Many thanks for any help.
>
>--
>Cliff

Cliff

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Aug 7, 2001, 9:35:44 PM8/7/01
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At 5:40 PM -0700 8/7/01, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>The short answer is that you cannot prevent that. There is
>no such setting. Acrobat uses this notation (set of letters
>in front of a "real" font name) for font subsets. The problem is
>that if you export EPS from Acrobat embedding fonts in the EPS
>file, place that EPS into other content, and distill, those
>subsetted fonts already have the funny names from their
>previous subsetting. And Acrobat continues to keep them distinct
>from any other fonts in your new PDF file.

Thanks Dov.

Normally I am happy with font subsetting and with pdf in particular.
However, last night with a really tight deadline an advert I had
turned into a pdf from Quark (using distiller), was not co-operating
at the newspaper end. It lost its fonts. Everything looked OK at my
end, and I used the same distiller settings I always do for this job.
(This was the first time I had sent a pdf to this newspaper, so I
suspect the problem was theirs.)

Anyway, because of shortage of time, I saved from Acrobat 5.0 as an
eps, and opened the file in Illustrator, intending to change the type
to outlines and send the eps. Because the fonts I had used were now
unloaded from my System, the job was in Geneva with those letters. It
was just a matter of loading the fonts, selecting the characters and
changing to the correct font.

I had just hoped that in future, if there was a way, I could avoid
having those letters in front of the font names.

Not to worry. I still love PDF, and use it often for all sorts of reasons.

Thanks for your help

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Cliff
TypeShop Limited
Christchurch
New Zealand

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