Re: Font Substitution with Acrobat Distiller Printer

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rick,

If your client is indeed printing to the Acrobat Distiller printer
instance, there should not be any TrueType host fonts substituted by
Type 1 printer fonts hackery that can occur for PostScript printers
that have PPDs claiming Times to be a printer-resident font. The
Acrobat Distiller 5 PPD does not claim Times to be "printer resident".
Thus, for any printer instance created using that PPD, Times should
never substitute for anything.

The symptoms, unfortunately, sound like that of someone using (gasp!)
save-as-PDF accessing a printer instance OTHER than the Acrobat Distiller
printer instance OR explicitly creating PostScript with a printer instance
that is not created with the Acrobat Distiller 5 PPD.

By the way, the "substitution" is controlled by two driver settings.
Individual font substitutions are controlled by the entries in the 
"Font Substitution Table" entry under the "Device Settings" tab in
printer properties. For any printer instance created with the
Acrobat Distiller PPD, the Times New Roman setting will by default
be set to "<Don't Substitute>". You should confirm that this is indeed
the setting for Times New Roman for your client's printer driver instance.

Furthermore, under BOTH Properties=>General=>Printing Preferences and
Properties=>Advanced=>Printing Defaults (you must do this for both), 
under Layout=>Advanced, the Graphic=>TrueType font setting should be
"Download as Softfont", NOT the default "Substitute with Device Font".
This effectively shuts down any and all font substitutions by the
printer driver. Obviously, in the same dialogs, you should have
Document Options=>PostScript Options=>TrueType Font Download Option
set to "Native TrueType". When the Acrobat Distiller 5 PPD is in
use, the "Automatic" setting would also be acceptable here.

        - Dov



At 4/12/2002 07:19 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:
>Hello Framers,
>
>I have a client using Windows 2000 and FrameMaker 6. Their documents use
>Times New Roman TrueType fonts. When they switch to the Acrobat Distiller
>printer to make Postscript files, Times is being substituted for Times New
>Roman. They are using Distiller 5.0.5 and the latest PSPrinter from Adobe's
>web site. Any idea why the fonts are being substituted? Thanks in advance.
>
>Rick Quatro


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