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> > Simple solution? Buy and install the Times font family (better yet,
Adobe's
> > "Type Basics" package, which includes Times and the other "standard 35"
> > PostScript fonts).
Dick Margulis wrote:
> Careful with that! Times New Roman, Times Roman, Times, Times-Roman are
> all different fonts. They look the same, of course, but if the names
> differ by even a hyphen, Distiller won't recognize them as being the
> same. I'm sure Jennifer already has one or more versions on her system
> without going out and purchasing any. In fact, Distiller brings along
> its own.
In general, that's good advice -- it pays to be careful with fonts that have
similar names. They may be from different vendors or in different formats
(Type1 vs. TrueType), and one can't assume that they're interchangeable --
or that an application will treat them as such.
However, "Times-Roman" (as specified in Jennifer's error message) is in fact
how Adobe Acrobat refers to the "plain" (roman) font of the PostScript Type
1 Times family that's included in the "Type Basics" package and most/all
PostScript printers.
I've just confirmed this in Distiller (Settings>Job Options>Fonts; then,
under Embedding, check the Base 14 Fonts list). Then, in Acrobat, I opened a
PDF created with that font family and checked the embedded fonts
(File>Document Properties>Fonts). The list includes Times-Roman, Times-Bold,
and Times-BoldItalic.
So I'm pretty confident that installing the PostScript Type 1 Times family
would solve Jennifer's problem. Of course, I've been wrong before... a _few_
times... ;-)
Richard
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303-223-5111
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