Pasting Open Type font symbol into postscript text

[Guest]

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

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

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

[Guest]

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

[Test Screen Name]

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).

[Guest]

Thanks again very much. If I could impinge on your time with one more question, is there some way to have default or preferred views in InDesign? With my screen resolution, 125% is a bit too small and 150% too big. I would love to have the view set at 135% and it would be neat if the application could either open at that view or if it were an option in Views on the menu. Is this something an option I am missing in InDesign?

Again, thank you for your time!

Cheers,

Bill