PDF export and embedding fonts

[jens g.r. benthien]

Derek, your trick doesn't work - I don't have this option in the Plugins & Effects menu.

[steve.ledger]

As mentioned...
As far as I recall the option to designate a bitmap editor was introduced with version 3.2 last July

[jens g.r. benthien]

Sledger, I only remember that this installation routine uninstalled a previous version, and I don't have another one to do a comparison.

[steve.ledger]

Yes sorry I'm not much help. If you don't have the later versions where there's a choice of Photo Editor, you're stuck with XPE I'm afraid.

There may be a registry tweak, but it's late here so I won't look just now.

[remi]

Hi Jens,

not sure, why it's not possible to embed copyright protected Fonts, but there is a workaround for such things:
Within the PDF export dialog there is the "Convert text into shapes" option on the tab called "Objects". This should convert each font into shapes without further copyright issues.

Buena suerte mi amigo
Remi

btw: There was a short comment from Xara in the last Xara outsider :
"Look out next month for some Xtremely interesting news about new versions...."
Therefore I would wait a week or two (or three ), before updating...

[steve.ledger]

You have a point of course Remi.
I have found that converting to shapes *before* exporting to PDF more succesfull. Using the PDF export option 'convert text to shapes' has on a number of occasions failed to render all fonts.

I understood jens comment "I would like to have them embedded" as having a purpose. Perhaps the recipient of his PDF's needs to edit the text?
In this instance, converted text would not be useful.

Yes the Xara Outsiders' hint at interesting things to come will certainly be anticipated by many I'm sure. Whether this is announcing an upgrade or a new version, it will certainly be up for discussion once announced.
We'll all have to *stay tuned* as they say

[jens g.r. benthien]

Hi Remi,

well, I know I can convert the fonts to shapes/lines, but that will blow up the file size between 3 and 10 times of the size of the PDF.

Another drawback of converting the text to lines would be that nobody could perform a last minute text editing in case there is a typo in it.

Thanks for the info about the news - I'll check it in a couple of weeks - usually I don't have the time to read the 'Xara Outsider'

[handrawn]

to get round the last minute editing problem you can put the text on a layer of its own and then duplicate this layer to convert to editable shapes - keeping the original layer there but hidden so it does not export

given this is not always practical if not laid out that way in the first place

[Albacore]

In my old work place this is the way we handle the problem using this utility. We were 100% Illy and nothing else was allowed and even Illy has some of the same problems that XPro does. Have a look here, now I am in a rush so I have not looked at the price so I dont know if you can afford it or not Jen's but it was our solution as we got Mac fonts sent to us and we were on Windows but it does convert True Type to Open Type:http://www.xraymag.com/articles/xray...anstype_1.html