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This is a somewhat basic question from someone who should know better, but sometimes I think old age is catching up with me.
Often I will receive layered Photoshop files with text layers, and the author very often does not send the fonts. So when I (the service provider) open his/her file, if the fonts are not active on my computer I receive the warning that the fonts will need to be installed in order to affect vector output, and the font layers that don’t have fonts installed have the yellow caution symbol.
But as long as I don’t try to edit the type layers, I can make other edits, and resave the file, thus using the rastered/composite part of the file for the type layers, and somehow my edits on pixel layers or shape layers or whatever get rewritten to the composite image, and the type parts are somehow still maintained in the composite without the need to rewrite them from the font outlines.
So does that mean that the fonts are embedded somehow, in part of the file, but not to the extent that they can be used to edit?
And what happens if you save such a file as PDF without the proper fonts active?
Will the fonts make it into the PDF to enable vector output when placed in ID?
Often I will receive layered Photoshop files with text layers, and the author very often does not send the fonts. So when I (the service provider) open his/her file, if the fonts are not active on my computer I receive the warning that the fonts will need to be installed in order to affect vector output, and the font layers that don’t have fonts installed have the yellow caution symbol.
But as long as I don’t try to edit the type layers, I can make other edits, and resave the file, thus using the rastered/composite part of the file for the type layers, and somehow my edits on pixel layers or shape layers or whatever get rewritten to the composite image, and the type parts are somehow still maintained in the composite without the need to rewrite them from the font outlines.
So does that mean that the fonts are embedded somehow, in part of the file, but not to the extent that they can be used to edit?
And what happens if you save such a file as PDF without the proper fonts active?
Will the fonts make it into the PDF to enable vector output when placed in ID?
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