This sort of problem represents the "flip side" to the advantages of Adobe
fonts. If one has a lot of special manipulation to do with type, it might
pay to invest in Compugraphic's versions of the faces you want to work
with, which are shipped with a utility to convert characters into
Illustrator or Freehand graphics. CG fonts can be processed in this fashion
because they were created with Fontographer and are not the special "font"
objects Adobe supplies.