problem with Adobe illustrator

[arrooke]

> I am having the following problem. I draw a graph using AI and opened a PDF files and used some of the
symbols from there to label my graph. And then saved the AI file as EPS (with the option of including document font). The file looks fine when I use it in other application. But when I try to reopen it within AI to make changes, I get a warning message saying "The documents uses fonts or characters which are not available or are in a different format than originally specified". And the symbols I used previously look different. Any idea how can I fix that. TIA

Try converting fonts to outlines (in Illustrator) before making your PDF.
That could be a step I had forgotten to make with my manipulated fonts.

Keith.

[MSD]

in article vfepogmctl8acc@news.supernews.com, M H at
someone@somewhere.earth.org wrote on 6/23/03 2:45 PM:
Saving it as a PDF is not a problem, the problem is when it is EPS format. There must be something wrong with the fonts, because when I try to reopen the EPS file in IA I get the following warning message: The document ''three.eps" uses fonts or characters which are not available or are in a different format than originally specified.
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Depending on how the PDFs were made
(that you "grabbed" parts from)
the font NAMES have, most likely, been changed during the PDF creation.
-
This is very common in PDF ...
fonts are given cryptic names during creation
to make it "impossible"
for the document to use a different font later.

Do you know the "exact" name of the font embedded in the PDF ?
Not the name of the font used to create the document
but - the font name of the embedded font.

MSD

[M H]

Saving it as a PDF is not a problem, the problem is when it is EPS format.

There must be something wrong with the fonts, because when I try to reopen
the EPS file in IA I get the following warning message:

The document ''three.eps" uses fonts or characters which are not available
or are in a different format than originally specified.

Any suggestions? TIA



"arrooke" <zarrookez@zsympaticoz.cza> wrote in message
news:P4BJa.627$OE2.178433@news20.bellglobal.com... I am having the following problem. I draw a graph using AI and opened a PDF files and used some of the symbols from there to label my graph. And then saved the AI file as EPS (with
the option of including document font). The file looks fine when I use it in other application. But when I try to reopen it within AI to make changes, I get a warning message saying "The documents uses fonts or characters which are not available or are in a different format than originally specified". And
the symbols I used previously look different. Any idea how can I fix that. TIA Try converting fonts to outlines (in Illustrator) before making your PDF. That could be a step I had forgotten to make with my manipulated fonts. Keith.

[M H]

The fonts used to creat the document are exactly the fonts embedded. I
checked that. The fonts are cmr9, cmr12, cmmi12, cmsy10. These are computer
modern fonts, comes with the TeX.
Depending on how the PDFs were made (that you "grabbed" parts from) the font NAMES have, most likely, been changed during the PDF creation. - This is very common in PDF ... fonts are given cryptic names during creation to make it "impossible" for the document to use a different font later. Do you know the "exact" name of the font embedded in the PDF ? Not the name of the font used to create the document but - the font name of the embedded font. MSD

[Neil Gould]

Hi,

"M H" <someone@somewhere.earth.org> wrote:
in message news:vfgpn8qo4qc460@news.supernews.com... The fonts used to creat the document are exactly the fonts embedded. I checked that. The fonts are cmr9, cmr12, cmmi12, cmsy10. These are
computer modern fonts, comes with the TeX.
Therein lies your problem. Many fonts that are used with specific apps are
incompatible with Illustrator. Sometimes, they won't display at all. Add
to that the opinion by at least some Adobe personnel that Illustrator is
not a PDF editor, and you'll need to approach this project differently.

Regards,

Neil