You don't have to worry about reopening, copying and pasting again.Īnyway, that's how we do it. The other benefit it has is that if you are on deadline, someone else can edit the ad document if there is a late change (while you are working on the paper), save out a new EPS (overwriting the old) and when you go to print that page you get prompted to update the EPS. It's just much easier to save out an EPS and import that. I've worked for a variety of small papers and it seems everywhere I go most people seem to pull in their ads by opening the XPress documents, selecting all, copying and pasting in to the main document. On the other hand, the fonts you are having issues with may embed in an EPS and therefore may actually embed for you later on (but they might not, it's just a possibility). If you try that it will also reveal to you just which fonts won't embed on an ad by ad basis. Because it's an EPS we also aren't worrying about font reflow, runaround, H&J conflicts or any image linking issues. We also aren't bogging down the main paper with additional boxes and fonts. Since fonts are embedded already in the EPS we don't have to worry about it. In our regular newspaper document where we merge the ads with editorial all we do is pull in the EPS file for each ad. We build our ads at size and then we save out an EPS of each ad, embedding fonts in the EPS file. We put out two weekly papers (tab, 2 sections, 16 pages each (usually, sometimes 24 per section)). Take it or leave it as you will, you know your workflow better than I do. This is every once in a while with a 4 page tab for a bar and grill in my area.Īnyway, here's a suggestion. I have to open each EPS in Illustrator and outline fonts and then save a PDF. I have one font that I can never PDF, but it embeds when I save out an EPS. You can't really tell unless you read the licensing of the font. I've been gathering non-exporting font names as I go along, but then have to substitute new 'look-alikes' which may or may not work LOL What a headache! The way the paper's put together there's really no time for this delay so any advice would be appreciated, very much! my problem is how can I know the difference?! I would cull the collection or use a Manager if I could find a list to do so, or maybe someone knows if Quark would only offer me the ones I can export?Īt the moment I have to go as far as Export and check which fonts won't export, then make the changes and test again. I've been reading about the issue and it seems some fonts just can't be embedded. Trying to vary the ads with different fonts, you know. I've got a pretty big collection of fonts from long before I ever needed any, not all, but many installed and it's causing a big problem when I go to export to pdf. I don't use collect for output, I just export pdf. Monthly tabloid, 16 pages, with articles and ads. I have a problem with embedding fonts when exporting to pdf. First post but I've been reading for a while and appreciate the information gathered here.
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