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JoshieD3
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May 25, 2014
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Myriad Roman licensing restrictions on someone else's template:

  • May 25, 2014
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Hello!

To elaborate - I'm working on a CD artwork, and I'd like to upload all the designs as PDFs.  This is the first time I've done work on these documents on the computer I'm on now, and when I went to save my Illustrator file to a PDF after some new edits, I got a message that the font Myriad-Roman would not embed because of licensing restrictions.  Where there used to be some text in the template, there is now just a bunch of gibberish.

I'm at a loss, because the font is not something I've placed in the document, it's a font that was part of the template I'm working with from disc makers.  I don't know how to fix the issue, or how to get around it.  Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks.

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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May 25, 2014

The Myriad Pro fonts as distributed by Adobe have no restrictions against embedding within a PDF file.

Is it possible that you have a copy of Myriad Pro that was edited by someone or a conversion of a Myriad Pro to some format other than OpenType CFF? In either of those cases, I could imagine someone inadvertently (or not) setting the embedding permissions such that the font would be seen by InDesign (and other applications) as non-embeddable in PDF. For embedding in PDF, a font must have at least “Preview and Print” privileges. The embedding privileges of the Adobe Myriad Pro font actually exceed that!

If you are running on MacOS, you might want to check the OS file access privileges to assure that you are actually able to open the font file. Possibly something got corrupted there.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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JoshieD3Author
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May 25, 2014

Hi Dov,

While I'm not specifically sure about the font's origins, I am positive it is not part of the Myriad Pro family, as that has been a part of my font library since purchasing the Adobe CS6 package a couple of years ago, and has worked fine the whole time.  From what I could tell in other searches and forum answers here, Myriad Roman is part of an older font package distributed by Adobe.  With that being said, I may still be able to find something off if I check the file access privileges, so I will try that.

The reason I'm not sure how to resolve the issue is because the template is still vital as part of the files that I need to send off.  I'm not familiar enough with their workflow to know whether or not changing something like that in the template could accidentally affect their ability to use the data to print the images.  I think the chances of causing a problem by just changing the font in the template to Myriad Pro are small/negligible, but until I can contact the company tomorrow I won't know for sure. 

My hope was that there was some kind of fix for the licenses/authorization, or that there was some original files I could buy/download to have the proper rights to use the font in the template and just not worry about it.

If you've got any other useful information that could help in those regards, I would be extremely grateful!

- Josh

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
May 26, 2014


Josh,

Prior to OpenType, Adobe offered the Myriad typeface family in Type 1 format as well as Multiple Master Type 1 format for both Windows and Macintosh. That was well over a dozen years ago. I do recall that some versions of Illustrator did bundle Myriad Roman and Myriad Bold for a while after that, but not in modern times.

However, unlike the TrueType and OpenType font formats, Type 1 has no embedding restriction flags within the font and thus, it seems rather unusual for you to have gotten the message you did. That is why I was wondering whether somehow that font got converted in a perverted fashion to TrueType with the no embedding restriction set.

Are you sure that there isn't even one character within that template calling for a some other font that may have an embedding restriction or that perhaps you don't even have installed?

If in fact the problem is Myriad Roman or the version of it that you have installed,  you should be able to readily substitute Myriad Pro. Although we cannot guarantee 100% compatibility (that's why we made the decision for different names for the OpenType fonts), the differences in design and metrics should be minimal.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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