Comments on: OpenType fonts

By: Laurens

Laurens — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:17:38 +0000

Go to the control panels and select the ‘Display’ control panel. It has an option to change the default text size. Mine is set to 120% because text is also too tiny on my Dell portable.

By: Carol Kraft

Carol Kraft — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:14:08 +0000

I just had w7 installed and all my type seems smaller now. Is there a way to change to larger type. Thanks

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:56:11 +0000

Just in time!

All right! Laurens, my problem was solved thanks to you. I didn’t think in Postscript + Distiller to reproduce the OT embedding. Thanks!

I can embed a Type 1 font (Myriad Pro Regular) following your instructions, but I can’t do that with an TrueType OT font like Lucida Console.

((Unfortunately) I’m working on Windows Vista now.)

Thanks a lot!
Alex

By: Laurens

Laurens — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:59:57 +0000

As far as I know you cannot embed OpenType fonts as OpenType when exporting directly to PDF from InDesign.

Try this instead:
- Print your document to a PostScript file without embedding any fonts.
- In the Acrobat Distiller settings, make sure the option to embed OpenType is activated and that no subsetting takes place. Set the PDF level to 1.7.
- Distill your PostScript file.

You should now have a PDF with OpenType embedded as OpenType – at least that is what PitStop preflight reports.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:55:13 +0000

Hi Laurens,

How could we embed OT fonts in PDF?… I’m trying to use OT fonts in Indesign CS4 producing PDF 1.6 and 1.7 and the resulting embedded font in the PDF is always Type 1 or TT… I would like to achieve real OT embedding to test if a preflight detects it or not…

Might I use an special kind of OT faces or something similar?

Thanks in advanced!

Best regards,
Alex