Quark EPS --> Photoshop won't recognize fonts

[reuber1]

What's wrong here?

I have three saved Quark EPS files with a special font used for the type. I'm trying to open them in Photoshop but I keep being told that "This file contains one or more fonts not available on this machine. Continue rasterizing?" and they come up in Courier. I have the font selected in Photoshop right now, so it's not like I do not have the font installed. Is there a quick fix to this? I need to get this saved and put on a CD in like an hour!

[Kool]

Don't know why this is happening. Why photoshop? Can't you open them in illustrator, that would keep everything vector at least. If you have to have them in PS try going through Illy as an intermediate step.

[Mynock]

you want to still edit the type in photoshop and keep it rasterized? Something does seem logical. What are you trying to do and why?

[PrintDriver]

Sounds like a font rename problem. Is the font name exactly the same on the source machine and your computer? Could be same font, two different foundries. Pain in the ass foundries.

[defjoe]

are you doing all this on the same machine?

[MD]

I have had the same problem, and as far as I know there is no easy solution. I think it has something to do with older or corrupt fonts. You could try to export as an pdf and try to open or open the text in illustrator and then copy and paste it into photoshop. Good Luck.

[rickself]

Quark does not embed fonts in eps files...only if you stay within Quark.

Gee that's nice.
There's a plug in that works (STOP ME NOW...A PLUG-IN for QUARK???).

It's for creating files for imposition in Preps. It, I believe can be downloaded from Creo...it's called pxt). I'll work on a link for ya.

[reuber1]

Thanks for the responses. rick, that link sounds pretty handy, thanks for the offer!

Here's the situation: I don't have a portfolio website yet. I just literally finished revamping my portfolio with brand new projects and just yesterday after work I spotted an ad in the paper for a design position at the local newspaper publication requesting samples on CD. Without a main portfolio website, I quickly mucked up a quickie HTML file that basically lays out all of my projects on the page that will be loaded onto the CD in a seperate folder; therefore all the project images are going to be JPGs for the webpage. The images/pieces themselves are basically the project files being exported as anything that I can open and optimize in Photoshop; I currently don't have the monetary capacity to physically print these things out and take pictures, which is what I would rather do. I'm not doing any editing in Photoshop besides optimizing the images so they're not 100 MB images sized at 300x200 pixels, so I'm not looking to edit the text at all...although I'm half tempted though to just delete the type Photoshop generates and type it in from there, since it's only being viewed from the web for now and I can access the font from Photoshop still (that's why I mentioned I had the font selected; not to edit in Photoshop, but just that it does exist though it says otherwise)...all the projects are completely done as far as the production process goes and eventually I'll get them printed for a physical portfolio and set up the web site images from there when I have more time to do it.

Most of my projects originated in Freehand (no Illy unfortunately & my version of Photoshop is a shade old) and exported as a bitmap from there and I get some pretty good results upon optimization in Photoshop, but I have 3 old Quark files from school two years ago that I updated and exported as an EPS. However, to turn that puppy into a JPG I need to open it in Photoshop and then optimize it from there, but Photoshop doesn't agree that the font exists and subs in the nastiest looking Courier I've ever seen. defjoe, this project was originally done on the machines at school, however I have revived it along with the font and Quark is still displaying that font just fine (I updated it here so the file is current with what I have) but for some reason Photoshop doesn't agree.

I didn't get to it before I had to leave for work, but it doesn't matter because I couldn't finish the rest of the CD anyway. I won't get to it until tomorrow afternoon now.