going to the printers

[mastera]

ok ...

Going to the printers and they need everything on cd rom. Fine. But they are asking for the all the images, fonts etc ... to be in seperate folders, which is fair enough. Images folder would be simple enough but a fonts folder ?? I've never seen this before. How the heck do I attempt this ??

Im using Photoshop with the PC. Help !! (I'm new to the graphics business - as I graduated with animation). Am I missing something ??!!
I've to provide them with EPS's. Think that's simple enough I think... save my final piece out as eps.

They are asking that the fonts in the EPS files are created as PATHS ??

Damn.

The thing is it's a lil hard to communicate with the printers as I talk very little German. I got the printer specifications in German (no english at all) and my girlfriend is having a hard time trying translate it all !!

Ahhh help. Im clueless.


Fonts folder ??
Saving as EPS ??
Saving the Fonts within the EPS as paths ??
Any help would be very much appreciated !!

[jimking]

Did you use fonts in this Photoshop file. Did you flattened the graphic, or do you have layers containing fonts?

[PrintDriver]

If using Photoshop you have to hand-collect your fonts.
Whatever you used in the doc, copy from your hard drive into a folder.

Unless, of course, you've flattened your file.

Photoshop isn't a layout program. Their specs sound like they are covering their bases for people who use Ind, Q, or Illy to do layouts and always forget to send their fonts and links...

[mastera]

I used fonts as normal layers...And no the images aint flattened !! I think I left the fonts as they were but I also have a sneaking suspicion that they were rasterized.

Think I rasterized all of the fonts actually. Surely they wont count as fonts. Perhaps if I rasterize all the fonts so they become normal layers that'll take care of the issue ??!!

I remember the program Maya automatically putting each segment of the given animation into it's own lil organised folders. How nice !! Wish that was the same here for all programs actually !

[mastera]

[QUOTE=PrintDriver]If using Photoshop you have to hand-collect your fonts.
QUOTE]

Not tooo sure exactly what u mean here. How the heck do I get the font ... ohhh do u mean just the font type like for example .... If I used Courier I should provide the courier font file.

Or should I provide the font which had the text "Typisch Deutsch". Im just trying to get myself straight here ...

If it's the latter ... would a seperate EPS file with nothing but the text be ok ?!

[hewligan]

If all your fonts are rasterised, or if your image file has been flattened, then you don't need to supply any fonts.

If that's not the case, then you'll need to go into C:\WINDOWS\FONTS, and copy the font files for all of the fonts that you used, and did not rasterise into a fonts folder to hand off to the printer.

[mastera]

[QUOTE=hewligan] C:\WINDOWS\FONTSQUOTE]

Magic !!!!:)
Thanks a Million.