Font won't embed in Pub 2007

[dominic.martin]

Hi,

I have a font that Publisher 2007 keeps telling me may not be
embedded. I know that fonts have licence restrictions and it is these
restrictions (part of the font makeup) that tell Publisher what it can
and can't do.

However, the font in question has a licence restriction of "Editable
Embedding Allowed". Publisher has no problem embedding other fonts
with the same licence restriction.

I installed the MS OpenType Font Shell Extension, which gives you more
detail about any given font when you select its properties. So I know
my interpretation of the licence is correct. I even installed a font
editor; so I could edit the source ttf file and remove every licence
restriction there was. I did this as a test (unistalled and re-
installed the font) but Publisher still said the same thing.

Where is Publisher getting this information from? I know I can send
the font as a separate file but it irks me that Publisher should be
able to do this and can do it for every other font except this one.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Dominic

 

[Mary Sauer]

What font is it?
Are you trying to print a PDF? Do you have resident fonts in your printer?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

What font is it?

I asked the same question and it was never answered.

 

[dominic.martin]

What font is it?
Are you trying to print a PDF? Do you have resident fonts in your printer?
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I don't quite understand why the printer is important; my query is
about Publisher embedding the font in the Publisher file (Tools
==>Commercial Printing Tools==>Fonts). It doesn't appear to make any
difference to Publisher whether I configure my Print Setup for a local
HP Inkjet or Ghostscript Postscript -- http://www.ghostscript.com/awki/Ghostscript
-- (with the latter postscript options configured to download the font
as a Native Truetype).

As an aside, when I produce PDFs at the moment, I usually set the
postscript driver to download the truetrype font as an Outline, rather
than Native Truetype in order to get round the licence restrictions.
However, there is a need to sometimes pass the Publisher file around
internally for review and not everyone has the font installed on their
system.

The font in question is Goudy. As I suggested at before, is there some
other setting within a font that would trigger Publisher not to embed
it? One thing I haven't tried is getting hold of a different set of
ttf files to install the font from.

Dominic

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

The font in question is Goudy.

I've got 14 Goudy fonts on my system. Is your problem with all of
your Goudy fonts or just one of them?

 

[PD43]

I've got 14 Goudy fonts on my system. Is your problem with all of
your Goudy fonts or just one of them?

OK... now I'm in trouble.

I opened my only PUB file and looked at the settings this OP was
talking about (commercial publishing tools - embedded fonts) and now
when I open that file, I am met with a message to the effect that
fonts that I've been using for months are now unavailable.

I can choose to unload them, and then I am able to edit my file.
Otherwise no dice. When I save that file and re-open it, I am met
with the same message.

What did I do, and how can I UN do it?

The Grumpster

 

[PD43]

I've got 14 Goudy fonts on my system. Is your problem with all of
your Goudy fonts or just one of them?

[snip]

What did I do, and how can I UN do it?

The Grumpster

Sorry... I'm using PUB 2007

 

[dominic.martin]

I've got 14 Goudy fonts on my system. Is your problem with all of
your Goudy fonts or just one of them?

I only use 3 or four Goudy fonts. The main one I use id Goudy Old
Style BT. However, the problem is the same for all the installed Goudy
fonts.

Dominic

 

[dominic.martin]

I am met with a message to the effect that
fonts that I've been using for months are now unavailable.

I can choose to unload them, and then I am able to edit my file.
Otherwise no dice. When I save that file and re-open it, I am met
with the same message.

What did I do, and how can I UN do it?

The Grumpster

If you go to Control Panel and look in your Fonts folder, do you see
them listed there? If they are, I can't see why Publisher can't find
them. If they're not, then something's happened to the embedded copy
of the font in the Publisher file (if they were embedded
successfully).

Dominic

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

If you go to Control Panel and look in your Fonts folder, do you see
them listed there? If they are, I can't see why Publisher can't find
them. If they're not, then something's happened to the embedded copy
of the font in the Publisher file (if they were embedded
successfully).

All the fonts were listed and were installed.

Don't know what I did when I was playing around trying to duplicate
your problem, but it definitely caused problems.

Had to open an older version of the file and then copy and paste the
pages I didn't want to rebuild into it.

Problem is solved as long as I don't go into the commercial printing
tools area. My printer only requires a PDF file (with their special
settings) for printing.