QuarkXpress EPS to CorelDraw 9, font problem

[gnurf]

Hello,

I have some business cards that are made with Quark Xpress.

The Xpress document is exported to EPS.

When I open the EPS file in CD 9 I get the text in wrong fonts (Helvetica in Xpress opens as Times New Roman in CD).

Can someone tell me why this happens, and also any solutions or workaraounds.

Also the text always opens as objects in CD so I can't just select the text and change the font [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

-Paul

[gnurf]

Hello,

I have some business cards that are made with Quark Xpress.

The Xpress document is exported to EPS.

When I open the EPS file in CD 9 I get the text in wrong fonts (Helvetica in Xpress opens as Times New Roman in CD).

Can someone tell me why this happens, and also any solutions or workaraounds.

Also the text always opens as objects in CD so I can't just select the text and change the font [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

-Paul

[cem]

Paul,

You didn't say how you were bringing the EPS into Draw. Are you "Opening" or "Importing"? The best way to avoid font problems is to use the Postscript Interpreted import filter and select "Import fonts as curves" in the following dialogue box. It won't be editable text, but it should look right. If that doesn't work then you need to have the fonts installed on your system.

Craig

[Not Ziggy]

As Craig noted (I think), opening is more reliable than importing. Always open and then drag or cut and paste; never import unless you're linking.

As to the fonts, thre is something controlled during the Quark export that is therefore outside your control: Whether the fonts are embedded. However, whether the fonts actually get embedded is also a function of whether the fonts are legally embeddable. If a font is NOT legally embeddable, no program on Earth will warn you about that; they simply leave them out.

Since Quark can't convert to curves on export, you definitely have text, rather than curves, and you have the option of preserving that status upon opening the EPS. However, an EPS is basically a print file and so it breaks up the text into chunks of anywhere from a few characters (including spaces) to a whole line. Are you sure that you have curves? Maybe you have chunks.

If you do have chunks, you can recombine them by shift-selecting in the order of reading (left to right, top to bottom) and then do a Combine. It's a tedious process, but it works. For large documents, it can be faster to re-place the text from a separate RTF file.

[gnurf]

I have tried the following two ways of opening the Xpress EPS in Draw: 1) by dragging the EPS icon (and dropping it) onto the Draw icon, 2) by importing it to Draw as Postscript interpreted.

I have also tried opening the text as text and as curves.

When importing text as text, the text is curves (and not text chunks), which I know by selecting a character - the property bar of "curved objects" appear instead of text properties.

I also tried opening the file with GhostView where it looks and prints fine. Even after saving it again in GV it won't open correctly in CD.

And if I remember correctly I managed to open the EPS in Illustrator where the text was OK, and also after saving it in AI it won't open correctly in CD.

You might ask why I go through the trouble of opening the EPS in CD: We have a printing bureau that insist on getting the material in Corel format(!) (and people always complaing about printing bureaus NOT wanting CD-files)

About the font embedding in Xpress: I have no clue! I wasn't the person creating the file - all I know is that it was made in Xpress 4.

-Paul