pagemaker font missing problem

[kala]

Pls find attached the pagemaker file / font along with font missed pdf with original requirement ...

can anyone try it out and help me pls...

regards

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Other topic here:

http://printplanet.com/forums/prepress-workflow-discussion/31494-pagemaker-font-missing


Stephen Marsh

 

[Alith7]

PageMaker was replaced by Indesign...maybe 8ish years ago. there aren't really too many people using it anymore.

Here is your best "free" solution.

Go here: https://creative.adobe.com/products/indesign

download the free 30-day trial, convert your file (hopefully with minimal headaches)
this page: Open PageMaker files | InDesign
should help with what to expect.

Other than that...I don't think there is anything anyone can do to help.

 

[david.young]

Have your client create the pdf. If it doesn't work on their system........

Regards your other post about not maintaining a windows 98 box, check out creating a virtual machine, just may do the trick for you, meantime maybe your customer will get some newer software

 

[Alith7]

Indesign CS6 exported just fine.
see attached PDF and pitstop screen shot confirming embedded font.

 

[kala]

Hi Alith

Pls check with my original required jpg image file and ur pdf still font missing...

Someone told some printer and ppd will sort out the issue ( i tried with scitex / linotronic / adobe /generic no improvement font missing only)

 

[Josephine]

Double click font to find name, rename, then import the font into your font program.

 

[LSW]

I installed Pagemaker 7 on Windows 7 x64 to try this. When I printed to a pdf (I use pdf creator) the font had jumped. So I tried printing to the Microsoft XPS document writer which seemed to come out ok. Then, from the Windows 7 xps viewer I printed to pdf and it came out ok, the font hadn't jumped. Hope this might be useful for you.

 

[kala]

G8! works thanks a lot....

 

[LSW]

Hi Kala, I thought about this again to try to something other than a workaround. I converted the truetype font to postscript type 1 and installed that. Deleted the truetype and installed the ps font and it seems to work ok now when creating pdfs directly from Pagemaker. I've attached the ps font.
You would need to check very thoroughly that there are no glitches caused by the font conversion.

 

[kala]

pfm font is missing in ur attachment..

 

[LSW]

Oooops! Try this.

 

[kala]

Yes.. its working directly but let me know which process u r using to convert the fonts and what is the setup or preference to follow?

 

[LSW]

I used the online font convertor at Online font converter to produce both .pfb and .afm from the truetype file. Then used "afm to pfm" from AfmToPfm for Adobe PostScript fonts to produce the pfm file to install font to windows.

 

[minch]

PageMaker was replaced many years ago, but here in the UK we still receive Adobe PageMaker files in versions 7, 6.5, 6.0, 5.0, and Aldus PageMaker 4.2, 4.0 and 3.0; from local authorities, amateur dramatic societies, small businesses and assorted individuals. Yes this is nuts, but we need the money from these print jobs. Yes we also receive Adobe CS6 files and everything inbetween. The other day I received 16 floppy disc images via email which turned out to have Aldus Freehand version 1 files on them; fortunately I have a mac with version 2.02 on it and was able to convert and save as EPS and then use something a little more up-to-date.
The aren't too many people is true, but there is enough to make it commercially viable saving old hardware & software.