Re: More Printer/PDF/Font problems

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Problem is not the driver. The problem is your font. It is
a TrueType font that is protected against embedding. The font's
embedding flags are honored by Acrobat Distiller. The only reason
why it "works" with "HP LaserJet" network printer driver is that
for that driver, the TrueType font is likely being degraded into 
an unhinted outline or a device dependent bitmap.

Complain to your font vendor and ask them to provide you
an updated version of the font that allows "embedding for
preview and printing."

         - Dov


At 5/10/00 09:21 AM, Ed Treijs wrote:
>Software:  NT 4.0 SP5, FrameMaker 5.5.6, Distiller 4.05.  I have made efforts to ensure that the Acrobat Distiller printer driver is the latest version, and uses the AdobePS 5.1.2 driver.  (Because of the esoteric and complicated procedure used to perform the 5.1.1 -> 5.1.2 upgrade, I AM NOT SURE if the version is indeed correct.  I AM SURE that this level of system hacking isn't what I want to be doing!!!) 
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>When I try to produce a PDF using the Acrobat Distiller printer driver (select the printer, then "save as" or produce .ps file and distill--same results) I'm told 
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>Start Time: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 at 11:55 AM 
>Destination: H:\testnewtemplate\run_ovn.pdf 
>Source: run_ovn.tps 
>%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% 
>%%[ Error: TradeGothic,Bold cannot be embedded due to licensing restrictions.]%% 
>%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%% 
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>Stack: 
>[142 104 117 116 130 78 65 129 117 71 104 116 130 78 71 156 65 103 
>117 71 143 77 117 117 116 104 103 65 130 117 0] 
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>%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% 
>%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% 
>Distill Time: 2 seconds (00:00:02) 
>**** End of Job **** 
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>1.  If I select our network HP Laserjet and then Save As PDF, the PDF is created just fine.  (I have not updated the network printer at all.  I have no idea what version of AdobePS it uses.) 
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>2.  What's more odd, I will swear on a stack of FrameMaker User Guides that this document, with the *same* fonts, using the *same* Distiller driver, distilled fine up to yesterday afternoon! 
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>3.  I'm not sure how to find out more about the Trade Gothic font.  In any case, it embeds just fine when using the HP Laserjet driver. 
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>Any suggestions?  I will likely be attending Shlomo's course, but that isn't for another few weeks.  This whole business of getting good PDFs is starting to look like some occult ritual best performed at midnight during new moon, etc etc. 
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>Ed (where's my black candles?) Treijs 
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