How to Solve the Problem of Missing Fonts in the Process of Printing and Distributing Prepress Files

The output center often encounters missing fonts during the process of publishing files. Although many output centers generally deploy expensive back-end delivery fonts when configuring distribution software, the diversity of production software, the preference of designers for fonts, and the continuous introduction of novel fonts can be achieved only by one purchase. The font library cannot adapt to the continuously updated and upgraded design software and operating system. In practice, certain skills need to be adopted to solve this problem.

In addition, in the newspaper industry, with the wide application of CTP, the problem of linking advertisement files with ordinary layout documents has become increasingly prominent. Advertisers provide a wide range of documents, and the production and distribution system used by newspapers is not necessarily compatible with the requirements of advertising companies. Therefore, there are often font incompatibility issues during publishing, resulting in documents that cannot be output or can be exported but fonts are replaced or Garbled. In order to avoid such mistakes, many advertising companies provided the newspapers with the correct film. When the newspapers were making plates, they glued the advertising film and the normally published film together to print. After using CTP, it eliminates the manual imposition link. Most newspaper companies have purchased expensive dot-sweep scanners. Scanning the film into dot-matrix files and then adding it to the layout basically guarantees the film's dot-reduction. In order to achieve the accuracy of dot-reduction, the scan resolution of the dot-sweep scanner is very high, and the scan-formed file is large, especially the color registration file scanning and synthesizing color image registration process. The computer processing data is very large, and the processing time is long. Seriously violated the intention of using CTP to improve publishing efficiency. The author believes that solving the problem of fonts in the distribution of electronic documents of advertising companies is more conducive to the use of CTP, which not only saves the cost of the film output by advertising companies, but also greatly shortens the time of plate making and improves the time efficiency of publishing.

There are several ways to solve the problem of missing fonts in the distribution:

1. Upgrade the distribution software, and configure a complete set of fonts, including Huaguang series fonts and its upgrade fonts, Founder fonts and Founder GBK fonts, Hanyi fonts, Wending fonts, Han Ding fonts and so on. Pay attention to the constant upgrading of the font, because some advertising designers often use new fonts in order to pursue the novelty effect of advertisements, and it is necessary to ensure the consistency of fonts used between the fonts for the font arrangement and the front-end design software. This approach is the fundamental method to solve the problem, but the cost is very high, the more the purchase of fonts, the greater the investment cost, and the font upgrade is also a big burden for many users, not to mention the front-end design display fonts of some companies. The back-end delivery fonts are not simultaneously marketed.

2. In the design process, the designer is required to designate some special fonts (fonts not available on the rear end of the book) to be processed in the image software so that the text exists in the form of images. There is no problem with the font of the font, but this will make the font size smaller. Small words are not clear and are subject to image resolution.

3. When the output file (PS file) is designed, the font download method is adopted, and the font without the font can be sent from the front-end font used by the design software through the conversion curve method, but the text is more. The file is downloaded in full, and the output and interpretation speed is greatly reduced.

4. The back-end delivery fonts not used in the distribution system used by the distribution host installation and design software can use the Windows system font to replace the missing delivery fonts through the setting of the distribution software. The specific operation is as follows:

(1) The fonts used by the design software are installed on the distribution host. The general groupware design software is equipped with a front-end design display font that is matched with the software. The purchase of the groupware software corresponds to these fonts without increasing the cost. In addition, buying front-end display fonts in the market is also much cheaper than buying back-end fonts, and most users can afford it. The system fonts are generally installed in the font path of the operating system. The Windows operating system is installed in C:\Windows\fonts. Windows NT and Windows 2000 and other system fonts are generally installed in X:\winnt\fonts (X is the letter of the operating system. ).

(2) Configure fonts in the distribution software. If you are using the Founder PSPNT Publishing System, when you reset the font, select Use Windows Fonts item, and then reset the font, the newly added font can be directly used for publishing, without the rear-end fonts,

If you use Huaguang's RIP2000 distribution system, you can also use this method to solve, set the font path when you add the main font directory X: ip2000 \ fonts, compatible font directory X: ip2000 \ compatible fonts, in addition, also add a directory X:\winnt\fonts, and then reset the font (for font registration), as shown in Figure 2, Figure 3, so that you can use the newly added font in the rip2000 distribution system.

(3) Windows font maintenance. In order to improve the performance of the system, it is recommended to add only fonts that are not present in the distribution system in the Windows font library, and delete the back-end delivery fonts existing in the distribution system in the Windows font directory. The font, to be added to the Windows font directory, each time the font is added or deleted according to step (2) of the operation method, in the distribution software to reset the font or re-enroll the font in order to ensure the correct distribution .

to sum up

Method 4 is an effective and cost-effective method, and interested parties may wish to try. In this way, the current distribution software (commonly used by PSPNT and RIP2000) can correctly publish all software-generated files used by the current design. In this way, advertising companies will no longer need to provide film to newspapers and only provide electronic documents for distribution. If they fear that newspapers have incompatible fonts, they can provide the fonts used in the documents to the newspaper when they copy and distribute documents. Then set up the font library according to the above method to ensure no problems occur. This method is both fast and cost-effective. If the issue does not cause problems, the advertising company will be happy to accept it. This eliminates the need for a lot of manpower and time to scan and register the film on the spot, and solves the problem of restricting CTP use. The problem paved the way for the use of CTP and comprehensively increased the publication speed of newspapers.