OpenType fonts in Creator, Export EPS, use in CS3 suite issues

[Joe Sporleder]

Chris,

So are you saying the problem is with Open Type fonts and Creator  
specifically? And CS3 installs some Open Type fonts? The reason I am  
asking is that we are a Mac shop (with the exception of a couple of  
accounting machines), and Creator 8.0.2, Acrobat Pro 6.x and  
Photoshop 7.x are our primary tools. We own 3 licenses of Photoshop  
that are eligible for an upgrade to CS3. I'm looking at the Design  
Standard package which would give me the latest versions of Acrobat  
Pro, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Does the CS3 installer give  
the option of not installing its Open Type fonts packaged with it? We  
have a multi-station license of a BitStream PS Type 1 font package  
that we purchased quite some time ago, and they work great with  
Creator. What is the big deal about Open Type? Are they the future of  
fonts?

Anyways, as we upgrade our Macs, and as people start using newer  
versions of Acrobat and InDesign, I am running into PDFs that are  
getting less and less press friendly. So, I'm hoping that if I have  
the latest versions, I can do something to improve our situation,  
plus I hate waiting too long to upgrade, because sometimes it is more  
painful to make to big of a jump (even though if it ain't broke,  
don't fix it is a great motto to live by).

We hire the Salina Journal, a regional daily newspaper, to print our  
2 shoppers and a monthly senior citizen tabloid. They not too long  
ago shifted to InDesign CS2 from QuarkXPress for their pagination  
workflow. They use Creator 7 for their ad designs. I'm thinking if I  
am at the CS3 versions of Photoshop, etc., that I would be more  
compatible with them.

We use Creator 8 for our pagination workflow, both ad design and  
pagination, saving EPS's of our Creator ads (as well as making EPS's  
of "camera" ready PDFs) to that publication's folder. I'm  
investigating InDesign CS3 for pagination purposes. Anything I should  
be aware of when replacing Creator with InDesign for the pagination  
part (we'd never give up Creator for ad design)? Any glaring problems  
with Photoshop or Acrobat Pro CS3? Photoshop and Acrobat Pro working  
well is a must . . . InDesign is just for testing purposes at this  
point. The primary interest in Illustrator is to be able to convert  
bitmap customer logos into line art.

Joe

On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Chris Denesha wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I might have mentioned this in the past for InDesign, but I'm  
> seeing it when rasterizing in PhotoShop as well, so it becomes more  
> relevant to the list.
>
> I would be interested if someone could verify this with CS2.
>
> Environment:
> Intel OSX 10.4.11
> C8.0.2 or C7.0.6
> Adobe CS3 suite and Open Type fonts from it
>
> Our workflow still requires an EPS export from Creator (pag system  
> using Quark 4.11 for PC).  I'm seeing the following problem when  
> using OT fonts in Creator.
>
> Export an EPS
> Rasterize in PS CS3, or
> Place in ID CS3 and export a PDF from ID (or view the placed ad  
> with View -> Display Performance -> High Quality Display)
>
> The OT fonts blow out, as in the character spacing is ruined, some  
> letters moved forward in the line and others moved backwards.   
> Seems to be the lower cased letters...
>
> If I export a PDF from Creator and place it in ID, the problem goes  
> away.  Not viable yet here until we test and move to a PDF ad  
> workflow.