Reply To: CID 2 fonts

November 4, 2011 at 5:54 am #60990

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Iam sorry to repeat the post, but can someone help me ?

I am working in Indesign CS4 on Windows XP platform. If I use fonts such as Script MT Bold in document & export to PDF using PDFX1a, the resulting PDF on preflighting using Sheet CMYK profile in Acrobat 7 flags the text where the font is used–The message is “Uses CID Type 2 font”. In fact, when using a lot of fonts other than the Adobe fonts like Garamond, Caslon etc. this problem comes up. I have a few queries regarding this:

Should we stop using such stylish fonts just because they are encoded as CID 2 characters & flagged by Acrobat?

Will the RIP's (Sheetfed CMYK offset) be able to print these fonts properly?

If the RIP's are able to print these fonts properly, why are they being flagged by Acrobat?

Are the Preflight profiles used by Acrobat 9, X etc same or different than those used by Acrobat 7 (do they also flag CID Type 2 font encoding, when using Sheetfed CMYK profile)?

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