Converting Quark pages to JPEGs without losing your fonts

[Charles_W._Bingham_III@adobeforums.com]

Help. My computer recently had Photoshop updated from Elements to 7.0 and I'm having problems with my fonts when I try to convert QuarkXPress pages into JPEGS so the pages can be posted on a News Page Designer Web site. I am using QuarkXPress 4.1 and Photoshop 7.0 on a Mac G4 with Mac OS 9.2.

What I've done in the past, and it worked with Elements, was to save the Quark pages as Editable EPS files onto my desktop. I'd then switch my program over to Photoshop and open the EPS files so I could convert them to JPEGs. The Web site I'm trying to post the pages to only allows JPEG files to be posted.

Anyway, since the upgrade I've been running into problems. When I try to use Photoshop 7.0 to open my Quark-Editable EPS pages, I get a warning that some fonts can't be rasterized. When I click on continue, the page opens up with a default font that is all wrong for the page. I tried making aliases of our system fonts (to copy them into the Font folder in the Application Support folder in the System Folder, which is where the Adobe online site said Photoshop gets its fonts), but I still can't get the program to reconize them. I even tried opening the Quark-Editable EPS files in Freehand and resaving them before opening them in Photoshop, and I'm still having the same font problem.

Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get Photoshop to recognize my headline fonts on my Quark pages?

Thanks,

Charles Bingham, Juneau Empire sports editor, [email]charles.bingham@juneauempire.com[/email]

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Make a PDF and open that in Photoshop.

also InDesign exports directly to Jpeg.

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

Or if you have illustrator, open with that and Save for web.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Also, update to 7.0.1.

[Rene_Walling@adobeforums.com]

I even tried opening the Quark-Editable EPS files in Freehand 9.0 and
resaving them before opening them in Photoshop, and I'm still having the
same font problem.




Have you tried converting the fonts to outlines in Freehand (or Illustrator) before rasterizing the eps file?

[Rene_Garneau@adobeforums.com]

What you need is a QuarkXtension called Font Collector.

You can get it here:

<http://www.meadowsinfo.com/pubsolutions/freesoftware_detail.htm>

And it's FREE!!!

It will download and embed font information in EPS files created using QuarkXpress.

I've had it since Quark 3.3 and it works beautifully. It will work with version 4 and they have one for Quark 5 also.

[Charles_W._Bingham_III@adobeforums.com]

If it helps, I don't have Acrobat on my computer (just Acrobat Reader) and I don't have Illustrator.

Also, Rene, how do I convert the fonts to outlines in Freehand?

[René_Garneau@adobeforums.com]

Also, Rene, how do I convert the fonts to outlines in Freehand?




I don't know.

Did you download that QuarkXtension? It will solve all of your problem.

[MarkATS@adobeforums.com]

It will solve all of your problem.




Not really, he'll still have Quark 8-)

[Rene_Walling@adobeforums.com]

Also, Rene, how do I convert the fonts to outlines in Freehand?




Can't remember, it's been years since I've used Freehand, but I reember I used to do it.

Check the type options, something like create outlines, or vectorize or something like that is what you're looking for.

[ken_upham@adobeforums.com]

Fonts to outlines in freehand is shift command p
for paths (It's crazy, every manufacturer calls it something else, I forget what corel was)

[Rene_Garneau@adobeforums.com]

Fonts to outlines in freehand is shift command p for paths





That's right. Or you can use the menus at the top (in Freehand 8 anyway): Text > Convert To Paths