FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

[Phil Heron]

Here are my answers to these questions:

1. Font licensing
Purchasing a font does not necessarily entitle you to embed the font in
a PDF file. It depends on the restrictions the font designer has
specified for the font.
If you have the Microsoft Opentype font properties extension (available
from the Microsoft Typography web site www.microsoft.com/truetype), you
can inspect the "Embeddability" of the font. If it is set to "Restricted
licence embedding" then Acrobat Distiller will not embed it in the PDF
file.

2. Acrobat Distiller was the name of the distillation port created by
Acrobat up to V5. With V6 the name of the port changed to "Adobe PDF"
but it still performs the same function.

Phil Heron
Technical Writer - CODA
www.coda.com

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+phil.heron=coda.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+phil.heron=coda.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: 06 March 2006 11:32
To: framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

On behalf of someone on another group...

At 11:23 +0000 6/3/06, Cherie.Ellis at trendcomms.com wrote:

>I wonder if anyone can help me regarding font problems with FrameMaker 
>6.0 and Actobat/Distiller 6.0.
>
>I have had a problem when distilling a FM file. Distiller cannot embed 
>a font because of licensing restrictions. We have purchased this font 
>so it's a mystery why I get this error. I am able to create the PDF 
>which looks OK on my PC as I have the font but on other PCs Acrobat
uses a substitute font.
>
>We decided to reinstall FM.  I used the FM disk to install Acrobat and 
>Distiller but these are earlier versions so I upgraded to  Acrobat 
>Professional 6.0.
>
>Unfortunately FM doesn't offer Distiller as a printer option now. I use

>Adobe PDF instead to create the PS file and then use Distiller to 
>create the PDF but I still have the font licence problem. I can live 
>with not having Distiller as a printer option but I really need to sort

>out the font problem.
>
>Any ideas?

--
Steve
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