CID font encoding in EPS?

[manyhatsjane]

Our newspaper is using InDesign CS for our ad production. We export these files to .EPS, then place these EPS's on Quark 4.11 (OS9) pages. We then export the Quark pages to a PS file and rip it through Prinergy to create PDF. When this happens and not all the time, we are occasionally having glyphs drop out or apotrophe turn into a strange character.
I think it has to do with CID font encoding but I thought that only happened when you exported out of InDesign to PDF. Does the encoding happen when exporting to EPS? Why is our rip (Prinergy Evo 1.2.6.3) not reading the CID properly?

 

[jimoblak]

You might get around this by 'printing' to a virtual PostScript printer to get your EPS files instead of 'exporting'.

 

[jmgalvin]

Assuming that everybody has the same fonts on their systems, you can choose not to embed fonts in the eps export window. Just make sure you don't use any Opentype fonts for Quark 4.

You can also outline the fonts in ID (type menu) and avoid any font headaches, but lose editing ability later on.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[manyhatsjane]

Thank you for your suggestions. With the volume of EPS files we do every night (100+-), I really don't want to go with your suggestions for the extra work load. However, on a few reprints we have duped the text block, pulled one set off the document so it could be edited later and outlined the fonts to make sure they worked. The problem is SO spuratic and out of 100's of ads per day it may only happen 2 or 3 times a week and sometimes none. It's like a needle in a haystack.

At this point I'm going to try working with Prinergy EVO from CREO and see if they can provide updates to the CTP rip software to handle CID encoding.

Thanks for all your help and good advice!

 

[jmgalvin]

I had forgotten one thing. On the eps export you can choose to embed teh whole font rather than subset. That could possibly solve disappearing glyphs etc.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[manyhatsjane]

Thanks for your after thought but we do always embed the entire font in the EPS since the workstation we export from Quark to PS is OS 9, they don't have our OS X fonts. Hopefully our company will upgrade our editorial department to OS X next year and we will all be on the same platform.