Re: [artworks] ArtWorks PDF export, with text, to Xara

  • From: Brian Bailey <bbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 15:25:37 +0100

In article <4a3c379d4f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

> > Martin, I am intrigued, but seriously showing my ignorance, does the
> > "Publisher" fonts Type1 file operate/work RISC OS side, please?

> No, the added Type1 file is just for PostScript printing (and ArtWorks 
> uses it for PDF export). But then, why would you want to use the Type1 
> file anyway when you have a perfectly good RISC OS font? The Type1 
> file is not per se better than the RISC OS font, its point is that it 
> is far better than an automatically generated Type3 font.

Well, I did say that I was seriously showing my ignorance. However, I've
had to create my own font for a particular purpose, because there just
isn't a RISC OS version, and I need to export it, and we have already
discussed the difficulties which might occur with what I must assume is a
Type3 font in exporting to Xara, in this case. There isn't a Type1 version
for the PC either.

> > Is it possible to convert other fonts to "Publisher" format?

> Possible, yes, but not with the same quality and I do not think there 
> is any software to do it. Obviously, if you could do it automatically 
> there would be no point in supplying the extra file - instead, you 
> would just have software to create it the first time it is needed. An 
> automatic conversion would not be as good as a separately created 
> Type1 font. RISC OS fonts and Type1 fonts have different quality 
> enhancement mechanisms and you cannot convert from the one to the 
> other easily. The point of a high quality "Publisher" font is that 
> both the RISC OS font and the Type1 font are of high quality, each 
> within the constraint of its format.

Thank you. I now have a better understanding.

> > For the record, someone mentioned Inkscape elsewhere. Editing pdf files
> > with embedded Type1 fonts seems to be very easy, but loading pdf files
> > with text converted to shapes and Inkscape gets very upset.

> I find that hard to believe. Text converted to shapes results in just 
> shapes being exported and even the most basic graphics program is 
> happy with shapes.

Just a passing comment. I don't intend to use Inkscape.

Brian

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