Why would a clients proof show a different font then what I'm seeing in Acrobat pro? They show a reg font and mine is condensed?
here's what i'd do..
take that pdf from the client and open and flatten and resave it in photoshop.
Sure, if you like fuzzy rasterized type instead of nice, crisp vectors. Besides, if the fonts aren't embedded in the PDF then it still won't look right.
lol
i'm telling you, don't open that client's file in acrobat. open it with photoshop or illustrator or preview and resave as something else, then you have no font problems.
The sheer ignorance of this statement is staggering.
Bu that's not what you said from the beginning - you are advocating opening the PDF in Photoshop. I am against that for the reasons I stated in this thread. This is the first mention of "printing as a PDF image."
Also, I'm not sure submitting files to the US Patent Office is really germane to the discussion, unless the USPO has a printing facility that I'm not aware of. It seems to me the point of that discussion was how to meet the USPO's requirements. I have a feeling that folks who are submitting for patents are not overly concerned if the font used in their submission is Times New Roman or Adobe Garamond - they just care that the paperwork is properly submitted. Contrast that with a graphic designer who painstakingly chooses every font in his/her design and needs the artwork to be printed accurately and with the highest quality.
Having worked in prepress for 18 years, I also receive my fair share of PDFs without fonts properly embedded. Usually they are the most common PC fonts like Arial and Times New Roman, and this is because the PDF preset the client used is set to not embed the most common 14 fonts. In these cases I open the PDF on a Windows machine (because that is invariably what the customer used) that has all the basic fonts that the average user has, then I use Pitstop to embed the fonts. Sometimes I'll use Acrobat's built-in PDF Fixup to embed the fonts, but that doesn't always work.
I personally think fontbook would be just fine instead of having 2.
I agree that you should just have one font manager, but I disagree that it should be Font Book. It's not for pros. You're better off to stick with Suitcase, although my font manager of choice is Linotype FontExplorer (there is a free version that still works great, though I'm not entirely sure if the free version works with the very latest Mac OS.)
Sounds like you need to get your font situation in order. Once that's under control everything else gets easier. If I were in your shoes I'd do some research on what fonts are required by your operating system, then clean out all your font folders that the OS uses (except for the required ones). Then you use Suitcase (or Linotype FontExplorer) for all your font management and never again open Font Book.
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