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From: rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman)
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Subject: Re: Displaying text in "uninstalled" font?
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:14:05 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <81efedba-9097-4e4b-9abe-dc5abe5e299a@googlegroups.com>,
 <jef_dex@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>If I take the following postscript-file:
>
>%!PS-Adobe-3.0
>/Arial findfont
>15 scalefont
>setfont
>72 200 moveto
>(text) show
>showpage
>
>then it nicely displays the "text" in Arial, if opening in Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tryout.
>
>But I want it to display in Myriad Pro, so I should change the findfont-command: 
>
>/Myriad-Pro findfont
>
>or something like that. However, this gives rise to the error:
>
>Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted.
>
>Of course, Myriad Pro IS installed in AI CS6.
>
>Please note that it is NOT an option to change the font in AI, I want this to be
>incorporated in the postscript file (which is programmatically generated by
>myself). I checked the manuals (Bluebook, Language Specification,...) but could
>not find it. Probably I'm overlooking something.
>
>Could anyone offer me some help please?

Are you sure the PostScript FontName is Myriad-Pro? 

They'll often have suffixes like -Book or -Regular.

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