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sequoyah · #1 (**permalink**) 02-05-2006, 05:48 PM

I have posted this in the Preps GUA forum over a week ago, but did not get any replies, so I am posting it here.

There are versions of type 1 fonts that show up in the Quark font menus as "B family name Bold" and similar constructions for italic, bold italic, condensed, etc. Examples are some versions of Helvetica and Futura, but there are many others.

Now PXT 4.5.1 with Quark 6.5 in Mac OSX has a problem in that it picks up this menu name for the font and then fails to include it in the ps file, giving a fonts missing window listing say, B Helvecica Bold. So that when printing that ps from Preps either in the previewer or to a postscript device there will be a request to locate the font "B" ( or "I", "BI", etc.). Since there is no such font, even in the folder with the correct font, the only option is to cancel. Followed by the message "there are fonts missing, do you want to continue?" Answer yes, then the output is correct because the font say, Helvetica Bold was in the ps file after all.

The header of the ps file will have the comment:

%%DocumentNeededResources: font B Helvetica Bold

That is the menu name of the font but the correct name of the font is Helvetica Bold. If that comment is deleted from the ps file before adding it to a Preps job, then there is no request for a missing font and the output is correct.

These same fonts showed up in the same way in the font menus of Quark 4 and 5 in OS 9, but the earlier versions of PXT did not have this problem. Are any of you having this problem? Is there a similar problem in Windows?

Finally, no part of this problem occurs if the ps file is produced by printing to file with the ScenicSoft ppd using the same fonts and Quark doc.

almaink · #2 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 05:59 AM

Go back to version 4.5 the .1 update doesn't work correctly for me either.

sequoyah · #3 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 08:35 AM

almaink,

Thank you for the response. I tried to down load the 4.5 version, but 4.5.1 is what they have in the available .sitx archive at the Creo site. Before I go through the trouble of getting it from another user, Can you please tell me with certainty if indeed it would take care of the specific problem I have described?

Al Ferrari

almaink · #4 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 12:50 PM

It worked for me tho YMMV after all it is Quack ya know.
Here's a link to 4.5 if ya need it. Always keep the old version when installing a new one they are always buggy.

http://www.prepressforums.com/module...eo_PXT_4-5.zip

sequoyah · #5 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 02:20 PM

Almaink,

Thanks for the link, but that one also is 4.5.1, NOT 4.5, and it is for windows and I work on a mac. By any chance, do you have the one I need?

Thanks,

Al

almaink · #6 (**permalink**) 02-07-2006, 07:10 AM

Sorry about that

ops:

Here is the Mac one?
http://www.prepressforums.com/module...o_PXT_4-5.sitx

sequoyah · #7 (**permalink**) 02-07-2006, 11:42 AM

almaink,

Thanks for the new correct PXT 4.5 version. However, it made no difference.

But in the process of testing that I discovered that the behabior I described in my original post ONLY happens if I am working with a new file that has not been saved and re opened. Opening the same file after saving it makes all aspects of the problem go away, both in the PXT export process and in the Preps output. So it seems to be a Quark problem, not a PXT problem.

Thanks for the help in any case.

Al Ferrari