Reply To: Page numbers and printers spreads

The problem with them asking people to package the files for print – while this was standard practice c. 10 years ago, it's not practiced anymore. As far as I know it's totally illegal to share fonts. So the printer would have to purchase the fonts and you cannot send the fonts to them, but the EULA for the font would be pertinent here, as some EULAs allow it.

The reason Adobe introduced a PDF workflow, not the only reason but one of them, was that packaging fonts and sending them to printers broke most EULAs for fonts and the foundraies were being affected costwise. As far as I know Adobe and others came to a decision that embedding fonts in a PDF would be allowed within EULAs to allow printers to output the files.

But of course there are many advantages to using PDFs in the workflow.

Based on this and and what I see in the packaging terms on the website, I can say that the printing company is slightly behind the times. They may still produce the fantastic or mediocre or even terrible printing, I don't know I've never used them, but most modern workflows use PDFs and don't ask for the source files, i.e., the InDesign files.

Perhaps they are a bit behind the times, it's unknown what they do with the files when they get them. PDF, Postscript, EPS files? Who knows?