Re: QXP print to file (to create a PDF)
Re: QXP print to file (to create a PDF)
- Subject: Re: QXP print to file (to create a PDF)
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:45:57 +1100
On 15/11/00 10:35 AM +1000, Leonard Rosenthol, email@hidden,
wrote:
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Why would it be a problem? TT fonts embed just fine in EPS
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files, just as well as T1 fonts do.
*Neither* get embedded in QuarkXPress EPS files. Distiller can still pick up
the Type 1 fonts, but not so the TrueType ones. (And people like Aandi
Inston, who seems to know a thing or two about Distiller, advise against it,
period.)
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(and of course, one would ask WHY you are using TT fonts in a prepress
environment?!?!)
I could answer, why not? But the reality is that a lot of people do it
without knowing. There's a box somewhere with some text in the default face,
Helvetica, they just did a system install and Apple's TrueType Helvetica got
installed -- there are lots of reasons. It happens.
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> The solution is to
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> make a modified Distiller PPD that gets around the Quark bug that otherwise
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> stops you from setting the page width.
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Hacking PPD's is a BAD IDEA unless you know EXACTLY what you
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are doing, and are willing to take future compatibility hassles.
All it's doing is cutting out the UI page size stuff. It's a trade-off on
what will cause more problems.
The real answer is for Quark to fix the bug, and for Distiller to pick up
TrueType fonts like it does Type 1 fonts. This latter will probably be an
even bigger problem with OpenType fonts, because it won't occur to a lot of
people that OpenType fonts can be either TrueType or Type 1.
--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden