[OS X TeX] Re: Using Lucida fonts in Illustrator
Alan Curtis
acurtis at ieee.org
Mon Aug 9 17:03:02 CEST 2004
On Aug 9, 2004, at 3:22 AM, Geoff Vallis wrote:
> One way to use Lucida (or any other non-standard) fonts in Illustrator
> is to convert them to Postscript outlines first. Thus, if you convert
> a PDF file to a Postscript file with pdf2ps (not pdftops), the fonts
> seem to be converted to outline graphics objects. The file can be
> converted back to PDF (using pstopdf say, or Distiller), or the
> Postscript file can opened as is in Illustrator, and the fonts appear
> okay. However, this is a bit of a kluge as you can't easily edit the
> text anymore, because Illustrator sees the glyphs as graphics and not
> text.
>
>
I just get bitmaps of the characters when I try this. Is there some
option to pdf2ps I am missing? Some ghostscript font installation?
Alan
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