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Topic: Re: Prinergy BS (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Prepress and Print, Msg: 110650
From: isaacs
Date: 4/30/2004 08:12 AM

At 4/29/2004 02:24 PM, p-pdf-prepress Listmanager wrote:
>From: "catman2u"
>
>We send files to a (the biggest in US) large printer that uses prinergy for the prep/CTP. They cannot use our exported ID3 pdf files on account of the CID fonts. Its only been 9 years since adobe released the spec, yet the printer blames adobe somehow.
>
>Is there a prinergy revision that handles CID fonts? If not are they only driven by adobe rips and is adobe holding back? It makes little sense so I don't know if I trust what the printer is saying.
>
>--catman


Prinergy handles CID-encoded fonts without any problem whatsoever.
Both Adobe and Creo stand behind that!

If your printer cannot "use" your PDF files exported from InDesign
because of the CID-encoded fonts, it is not because of Prinergy.
A few possibilities: (1) The printer has heard of problems with
CID-encoded fonts from other printers and is just waving you off
without knowing whether or not their systems can really handle
them. (2) The printer is using OTHER software in addition to
Prinergy which may be obsolete and not properly handling CID-encoded
fonts.

With regards to (the biggest in US) large printer, we are aware of
significant plant-to-plant inconsistencies of some of these large
printers in terms of what they claim to accept and/or how they
have actually setup and updated their workflows. Goes under "your
mileage may vary ..."

- Dov