Not much you can do short of printing to Adobe PDF instead. FWIW, CID encoded fonts have been part of the specifications for over 10 years now which means they’ve got one very old RIP or a very poor clone.
CS2 minimizes the use of CID fonts but doesn’t eliminate them. Even printing to Adobe PDF can still give you CID encoding.
Bob
Yikes, I thought this was an InDesign question.
FWIW, the advice still stands but I really don’t know about the font encoding in Photoshop CS2 vs earlier versions.
Bob
Thanks for the reply, Robert. It seems Photoshop CS2 will save the Type 1 fonts as CID fonts and there is no way around it.
Here are the results of my research so far:
Photoshop CS2
1.
When I choose ‘Save as..’ and save as PDF from Photoshop CS2, in the document properties for the PDF, it says:
PDF Producer: Adobe Photoshop for Windows – Image Conversion Plug-in In the ‘Font’ tab, it says the embedded fonts are Type 1 (CID) with Identity-H encoding
When I open up the resulting PDF in PSCS2, all the layers are still there, and the fonts appear just as they were in the original PSD file.
2.
When I choose File | Print … and print as a PDF file from Photoshop CS2, Distiller does its thing, but it seems to flatten the file and the resulting PDF does not contain any fonts at all.
This happens even if I check ‘Embed all fonts’ and uncheck ‘Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" in the ‘Adobe PDF Document Properties’ dialog. Big flat file, no embedded fonts.
(Another related question: Is the option to File | Print… as PDF there only because I have Distiller installed?)
In the document properties for the PDF, it says:
PDF Producer: Adobe Distiller 7.0 (Windows)
When I open up the PDF in PSCS2, there is only the 1 rasterized layer.
3.
Just as a test, I created a document using the same Type1 fonts in an InDesign CS2 document. Then choose File | Export… and export as ‘Adobe PDF’.
In the document properties for the PDF, it says:
PDF Producer: Adobe PDF Library 7.0
Fonts: Type 1 Encoding: ANSI
Which is what I want. Excellent
Conclusion:
So, if there were some way to export to PDF from PSCS2 using ‘Adobe PDF Library 7.0’ instead of ‘Adobe Photoshop for Windows – Image Conversion Plug-in’ as the PDF Producer, then I would have it made. Anyone know how to do this?
In the meantime, it seems my only hope is to redo all the text in InDesign. I am an InDesign newbie too. Anyone know where to find a good tutorial on how to export text layers from Photoshop and import them as text into InDesign?
I was going to suggest your point number 3 as the best alternative anyway.
Bob
(also, the newspaper must be using a RIP that’s over 10 years old!)
If it’s not it’s certainly a lousy clone.
Bob
The ad is to appear in the Italian national newspaper ‘La Repubblica’. They have been named and shamed 🙂
Although maybe language issues mean they have no choice.
