Re: question about Helvetica Neue font

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Meredith,

What is most likely happening is that the font Helvetica Neue is not embedded
in your EPS file (in the general case, if you have text in an EPS file, save
the EPS file from Illustrator or Acrobat or wherever with fonts embedded!).
When you print the FrameMaker file to a "live" PostScript printer, the
missing font results in printing in Courier, but spaced incorrectly.

When you create PDF, what is happening is that the Distiller does indeed
find the font for you and embeds it into your PDF file.

By the way, this is exactly why you are often much better producing PDF
files first and printing from Acrobat. You effectively preflight AND also
have some opportunity to get around some missing resource problems at
distillation time.

        - Dov

PS: My condolences on being stuck with Windows NT 4.



At 5/1/2002 06:35 AM, Meredith Blackwelder wrote:
>Hi Framers,
>
>In my Frame 6 document I have an imported a graphic created in Illustrator
>9 (saved as an .eps) that contains Helvetica Neue text. I printed from
>Frame, and on the printed page the text in that graphic is squashed
>together and not Helvetica Neue. But, if I PDF that Frame file and then
>print the PDF, it prints fine.
>
>Anyone have a suggestion about what could be going on? I'm using Windows
>NT and have Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.1.
>
>I'm under the impression that Helvetica is numbered like Univers--where
>Helvetica Neue is sometimes labeled/seen in applications as Helvetica
>25 or 35 or 45. In Illustrator, I can choose Type>Font and I see Helvetica
>Neue as a listed font and can choose the flavor of my Helvetica Neue
>(UltraLight, Thin, etc.). But, when I'm in FrameMaker, I choose
>Format>Font and I can choose Helvetica, Helvetica 25 UltraLight, 35 Thin,
>45 Light, 55 Roman, 65 Medium, and 95 Black, among others. In ATM, I get
>what I see in FrameMaker (no listing for Helvetica Neue, but listings of
>Helvetica 24, etc.). Could my problem be because Frame and ATM are seeing
>the font as a different name than Illustrator is?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Meredith


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