Postscript fonts in CC
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I welcome any help I can get on this. We have thousands of older PDF files that use a Postscript version of Times-BoldItalic. But, the fonts weren’t embedded. When we activated the correct Times font in CS6 and earlier, Times renders the way we expect and prepress is able to do their job. With CC, the Postscript font is just invisible. Including the font in ~/Library/Fonts does nothing. Including the font in /Applications/Adobe Indesign CC 2017/Fonts does nothing. All newer Adobe products (Acrobat DC, Indesign CC 2017, Illustrator CC 2017) use the Times set that is part of the OS. The OS itself uses the Postscript when I activate it via Spotlight and Preview. Indesign CS6 and earlier and Acrobat XI and earlier render the Postscript font correctly. Just not newer Adobe products. I’ve been scouring the internet, but can’t find a way to make Postscript fonts work in CC. I doubt I’m alone in this. Has anyone found a workaround?
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I’ve always removed the Times font from my system fonts folder or library folder. So I can’t speak about earlier versions.
The Mac OS uses the Times.df font so it shouldn’t be using the postscript font.
It sounds like a font conflict.
I keep my system fonts and library fonts to the bare minimum to what the OS requires. But–I don’t throw them out. I put them in a disabled font folder that I create.
Look in your system fonts folder and library fonts folder and move the Times.df font to a disabled font folder you created.
Try that.
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Thanks Dwayne. I’ve got a super-clean system fonts folder. Only the core basics, BUT the Times.dfont is one of the recommended fonts to make sure you keep, so it’s in there. I have NO user/library fonts. Everything is manually activated. I’ve now created NEW versions of these older Postscript fonts using FontLab Studio. Using the same file, CS6 and Acrobat XI use the font in my user library where CC and DC use the font in the system folder.
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I’m not sure what to tell you, Ward. I know they recommend they say to keep the Times.dfont in the system folder, but for me it causes a conflict.
I normally don’t work on books that use Times, but sometimes I work on some mass market books, and they use Times. So I have to take it out of my system folder.
I do that alot–take it out when working on those jobs using Times and putting it back in later.
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