importing ( opening ) text as a graphic

**Slind** · 14 September 2007, 06:36 PM

I've received a PDF logo which upon opening in AI CS2 says that the font isn't recognized and is replaced with a substitute. Is there a way to force
AI to accept the text as a graphic instead ?

Thank you.

Shawn

**handrawn** · 14 September 2007, 07:27 PM

Hi

Don't know about that...but

I would open it in my photshop [elements 2] which will preserve the shape of the characters, and save it as transparent bitmap.

Then I'd import that into inkscape and do a bitmap trace - save that as svg and import it into my illustrator 10 as vector.

Illustrator 10 tracer isn't that good, which is why I use inkscape - but CS may be better.

I suppose you could try exporting path mask from photoshop to illustrator - not something I've much experience of... should be an easy way I would have thought in CS?

PS - you can always hand trace the bitmap in illustrator with pen tool

**Slind** · 14 September 2007, 07:59 PM

When I bring the file into AI, it replaces the artwork letters with a replacement font. So
right from the start, there is a block letter
version staring back at me.

The art is close to New Times Roman, but the
'R' is not quite the same. Searched for the
font which the client said was ' Victoria ', but found no exact match.

Thank you for your suggestions.

Shawn

" First comes the learning,
then the unlearning. "

**handrawn** · 14 September 2007, 08:06 PM

this is the font:
http://www.linotype.com/160114/victo...ng-family.html

no I stand corrected they is no Victoria roman there - this is tiliting only

**handrawn** · 14 September 2007, 08:49 PM

closest I can get - .ai8 file zipped

**Albacore** · 15 September 2007, 11:27 AM

Hi Shawn,
In these situations you can spend hours trying to find the font with searches on all of the major font companies but in my opinion would be to get yourself a font viewer and get an approximately similar font and even then it might cost you a lot of money. Who ever sent you the PDF get them to go back into Illy and Create Outlines or send you the font if it is free.

**remi** · 15 September 2007, 12:18 PM

Or you can open your PDF file with the Adobe Reader and look under "File" -> "document (or page) properties" (not sure, because I don't know the english version) and there you'll find the List of used "fonts" in this PDF file: "Victoria-Roman".

Remi