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Anonymous
February 17, 2016
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Pasting Open Type font symbol into postscript text

  • February 17, 2016
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Hi,

I am using an older postcript Times font and want to paste in the euro symbol from Times New Roman Regular in the text box. I would use the Open Type Times New Roman for the entire document but the reflow problems are large. My question, can I just past this euro symbol of Times New Roman text with the Postscript text and create my print ready PDFs or would this create problems?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Two days from deadline on a 400 page document.

Bill

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Bill,

I assume that by postscript (sic) Times font you mean a Type 1 font of the Times family.

Yes, there is a tremendous amount of potential for text reflow by doing a wholesale replacement of one flavour of Times with Times New Roman, although this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether the original font was a Type 1 font and the new font is OpenType. For example, if your original font was the Adobe Type 1 version of Times and you were substituting the Adobe OpenType version of that same font, Times LT, it is very unlikely that you would see much if any reflow at all.

But to answer your direct question, if you simply used the Times New Roman Euro symbol inside text strings otherwise formatted in Times, you should have no problems, at least with Adobe applications (including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, FrameMaker, and Acrobat) or in PDF files in general.

          - Dov

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Dov Isaacs
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Legend
February 18, 2016

Bill,

I assume that by postscript (sic) Times font you mean a Type 1 font of the Times family.

Yes, there is a tremendous amount of potential for text reflow by doing a wholesale replacement of one flavour of Times with Times New Roman, although this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether the original font was a Type 1 font and the new font is OpenType. For example, if your original font was the Adobe Type 1 version of Times and you were substituting the Adobe OpenType version of that same font, Times LT, it is very unlikely that you would see much if any reflow at all.

But to answer your direct question, if you simply used the Times New Roman Euro symbol inside text strings otherwise formatted in Times, you should have no problems, at least with Adobe applications (including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, FrameMaker, and Acrobat) or in PDF files in general.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Anonymous
February 18, 2016

Thanks Dov, yes it is a Type 1 postscript font and thank you for your help. I am creating print ready PDFs from Indesign so hoped this would not be an issue.

Cheers,

Bill

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Legend
February 18, 2016

Just in case it isn't clear I would add one detail, since you posted in the Acrobat forum. This change should be done in InDesign, not in Acrobat. Making ANY edits to text in Acrobat has the potential to create serious problems for you. (Recent discussions include the possibility of changing colour space to sRGB without warning).

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