You didn't say how you created the symbols, but if you used the Carta or Zapf Dingbats fonts to create them, these fonts are a problem in all Adobe programs it seems...some licensing thing.
If you did create symbols using these fonts, try converting the symbols to outlines, using the Create...
Thanks a million to everyone who tried to help me out.
I discovered that AI files updated in 1997 from the original 1992 files were the problem. How these got corrupted is a mystery, because they were all updated within a few days of each other, and about 20% are OK. The rest are in various...
Thanks for the replyjmgalvin. Much appreciated. But all my fonts are on my machine and all are activated. In newer-old AI files, the Update option words fine. Click once and it's done. I'm having problems with those that are from 1998-99.
I'm using OSX 10.3.9
I don't understand "you have to have the fonts open then resave them". When I choose Update, the fonts totally disappear from the file image.
Thanks for any help you can give me in between our hurricane, earthquake, and tsunami watch ;-)
I publish Hawaii guides and am redesigning one of my books. I have AI files created in AI 5.5 through AI 8 that I am trying to open in Illustrator CS. The original files --stored on external hard drive and zip drive-- open fine for viewing, but when I copy them to my computer for editing in...
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