[OS X TeX] TeX and Illustrator Fonts -- CMR Works and Lucida doesn't

[Alan Curtis]

On May 4, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Gordon Sick wrote:

> Further to my earlier post, I've been pursuing the issue of being able 
> to edit pdfs created by PDFLatex on Mac OS X with Illustrator CS1. I 
> had earlier thought that this wouldn't work at all, because 
> Illustrator won't recognize the fonts, but I now find that I 
> Illustrator WILL correctly handle the default CMR fonts with no 
> problem but NOT the Lucida Y&Y fonts.
>
> I've checked my system, and I don't have the Tex-Illustrator version 
> of CMR on the system. When I open the CMR text (created with TeXShop 2 
> defaults) in Illustrator CS, I can see the CMR fonts and even select 
> the text line and add text. I know it is the Tex version of CMR, 
> because when I type a space, it gives me a ? mark rather than a space.

Just a thought --- did you check to see if the CMR fonts are in 
*Library/Application\ Support/Adobe ?

I would second using Maarten's ghostscript solution, as even with CMR 
fonts problems occur in Illustrator (with odd characters missing - \pm 
and \gamma come to mind).

Alan


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