Mac OSX/OS9 Embeded Fonts

[wanty1974]

I wonder if anyone has the answer to this. I have our corporate logos designed in Illustrator 8 within OS9 and our brochures designed in Quark 6 on OSX. The font used in the Illustrator Logo does not get embedded when converting to PDFs from Quark.

How do I either put the Logo font into the OSX file so it gets recongised or (preferably) how do I get the correct OSX font into the logo in Illustrator?

Thanks!

[Mrs Fish]

I'd help if I could but our company is too cheap to upgrade our software for MacOSX compatibility

Is there not an option in the preferences that you can embed the fonts?

[wanty1974]

OSX is a dream come true, the Mac went off the the doctors to be upgraded and came back faster, sexier and less crashy.

Can't find an option to embed the fonts, although I am new to Acrobat Distiller, so it maybe in there somewhere.

[Mrs Fish]

When you go to export as PDF from Quark and your PDF box comes up go to Job Options in preferences, tick the box which says Overide Distiller font option, then tick the box embed all fonts.

[wanty1974]

Might have found a way round it... I'm converting our strapline to a curver in Illustrator so that it isn't classed as a font. We'll see how this works...!

Thanks Mrs Fish

[Mrs Fish]

Is that the same as making all text as paths? We don't really use Illustrator, we use Freehand instead, I find it much easier to work with.

[wanty1974]

Yes, paths etc. Fun & excitement. I actually located the font folder that Illustrator uses (tucked away in the bowels of the hard drive) and slotted it into the fonts file of Acrobat so all sorted now!

I've been on courses for Quark, OSX and Photoshop now... perhaps one for Illustrator beconds...