Font substitution When converting FM11 file to PDF

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November 1, 2013
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I am working in a FM11 – Win 7 environment. We upgraded 2 font families recently:
Imago Book upgraded to Imago BQ
Bembo upgraded to Bembo Std

I am attempting to save a FrameMaker 11 file as a pdf. When I attempt to do this, the pdf is not embedding the Imago BQ Bold font. It is substituting it with Imago BQ BoldItalic. I am pdfing a number of FM11 files that have been formatted in different templates. I am not experiencing this problem with these FM11 files. It is only occurring with a set of FM11 files formatted in one template.

I can’t figure out why this font substitution is occurring. Has anyone encountered this issue ? How do I resolve it?

I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro.

Thanks,
Brenda

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Gorly

Inspiring

Hi Brenda,

are you creating the PDFs via PDF export or via print book as PDF?

You might want to try the later and make sure you open the PDF options and remove the checkbox "use only system fonts".

We encountered some similar issues lately, when trying to create a PDF with kyrllian fonts, and removing that checkbox solved the issues.

This would also explain why it doesn't occur with other documents, as they might use some other PDF profile where this setting is removed already correctly.

Cheers

Alex

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

What joboptions are you using for creating the PDF and are you specifying the CMYK or RGB option for PDFs? The CMYK route still has some issues wth fonts.

You may also want to check the EULA for the Imago fonts. Berthold is more restrictive on where and how the fonts can be embedded in electronic files.

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brendag61244549Author

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Thanks. When I chose RGB instead of CMYK it resolved the issue. You mentioned that I might check the EULA. I’m not sure what that is. Could you please provide me with more information concerning how to check the EULA?

Thanks for your help

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

The EULA is the end-user license agreement that typically is included with the font files at time of purchase. The Berthold EULA can also be seen at:

http://www.bertholdtypes.com/info/agreement.html

What you might want to pay attention to is this clause, especially part (iii):

Without the purchase of an additional license, you may NOT otherwise embed the Font Software. For example and without limitation: You may NOT embed the Font Software into your hardware, software or other products, such as, application programs, electronic games, e-books, kiosks, printers, etc.; (ii) You may NOT embed the Font Software into your web pages; and (iii) You may NOT embed the Font Software into electronic commercial documents.

Some foundries have web-crawlers that search posted PDFs for violations.

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