#PostScript from Comnd-K
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PageMaker (or any application, for that matter) can get picky about what fonts
are used in placed graphics. Since you are creating your "own" format EPS
graphic, PageMaker may not be able to extract the font usage info from the
file.
Try this: make sure to specify at least ONE character in the "regular"
Pagemaker document to be a font that is used in the graphic (one character for
each font used). This way, PageMaker will _have_ to download the necessary font
for use in the printing of the file.
-Scott Leyes
Scott
Thanks for the reply. I did just what you suggested but still had the same
problem with the output. The font was downloaded for the "regular" PageMaker
document but the EPS file still used courier for its fonts instead – almost as
if it treated the EPS file as a seperate document. Does that make sense?
Rob
Assume the artwork prints fine directly from Illustrator? What output device
is this — an L100, by any chance? Which RIP?
If PageMaker tries to print documents the printer finds are too complex
(sometimes even on a LaserWriter Plus, though not often on a LWII), it will
jettison downloaded fonts, apparently first in imported files. I've never seen
this when the same font is used on the base page, but suspect it's possible.
As a little test, open Illustrator, set a line of plain text in the problem
typeface, save the document and place it in PageMaker, then print. If it
prints you'll at least know that it's not inherently the
Illustrator-to-PageMaker connection. If so, I'd think about the complexity of
the file.
As another test, you might try this, just to see if it's something within the
document or something about Illustrator and that document: save it as
Illustrator 1.1, open it with FreeHand, print it just to see if all is well at
this point, then export it as an EPS, place _that_ in PageMaker (whew!), and
see if you have the same problem.