Re: Acrobat Issue

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

HOWEVER, if you let Distiller "warn and continue" you
can readily end up with a PDF file that is unreadable,
unprintable, ugly (to put it simply), and/or some
combination of these symptoms. 

With regards to font licensing, I will repeat what I
have said repeatedly in this and other venues: If a font
doesn't provide at least "print and preview" embedding
privileges for PDF files in its EULA (end user license
agreement) or it physically prevents such embedding via
flags in the font (TrueType and OpenType only!), then the
font and its license are effectively USELESS to you. 
Just say no to such business practices by choosing other
fonts.

        - Dov

PS: I know that some of you will suggest other hackery
such as having the driver produce "outlines" or "bitmaps"
in lieu of the original font. Those practices not only
are also in violation of the EULA of such fonts, but they
also yield degraded results, often yielding unsearchable
text, readability or printability problems, or some 
combination of these. 


At 9/18/2002 01:44 PM, Sean Brierley wrote:
>Get a different font. You cannot embed it.
>
>As for no PDF output, there is a setting in Distiller
>for this. Probably, you have it set to quit if
>embedding fails, which is an _excellent_ choice. You
>can, however, set this to Warn and Continue.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sean
>
>--- Heidi Colonna <hcolonna@zebra.com> wrote:
>> HELP. I'm trying to distill a .ps file and one of
>> the fonts I'm using, and
>> have used in the past is telling me this:
>> 
>>        This font's license does not permit
>> embedding.
>> 
>> When I distill the file, I just get No PDF Output.
>> The .log tells me the
>> above error. Also, in Distriller, when I got to
>> Settings>Job
>> Options>Fonts, I scroll through  my fonts theres a
>> lock icon in front of
>> the font. When I click on the font, I get the same
>> above error.
>> 
>> Has anyone ever gotten this error? Any feedback is
>> much appreciated. Of
>> course, I'm on a deadline which requires a .pdf
>> deliverable!


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