Fonts

The fonts you use in your campaign may not be standard fonts. To ensure that the final document uses the correct fonts, you should upload the fonts to your campaign. You can upload individual font files, or upload a zip file with multiple fonts. When you upload a new font that has the same name as an existing font, uProduce will overwrite the existing font.

To upload fonts to a Campaign:

  1. Go to the Campaigns page and select the Campaign to which you wish to upload fonts.

  2. In the Campaign tree, click Fonts to display the Fonts page.

  3. Click the Upload button.

    The New Font dialog is displayed.

  4. Enter the path of the font file, or click Browse... to locate the file. You can choose any single font file (*.ttf, *.ttc, *.otf, *.pfb, *.pfm) or a zip file (*.zip) that contains the required fonts.

  5. Click Save to upload the font file.

    A progress indicator is displayed; at the end of the upload process, the font information is displayed in the Fonts page.

    In case of TTC, all files included in the collection are displayed.

Note: When uploading a Type 1 font, you must first upload the *.pfb file and then the *.pfm file.

TrueType collection files

PersonalEffect supports TrueType Collection (TTC) files. A TTC is a means of delivering multiple fonts in a single file structure. The format for font collections allows font tables that are identical between two or more fonts to be shared. Font collections are most useful when the fonts to be delivered together share many glyphs in common. By allowing multiple fonts to share glyph sets and other common font tables, font collections can result in a significant saving of file space.

True Type Font collections are supported for InDesign and XLIM documents. XLIM documents can only output TTC fonts for PDF and PDF/VT output formats.

Note: Because the document is produced on a Windows machine, fonts must be in Windows format before you upload them. You cannot upload Mac OS fonts. If necessary, use third-party tools, such as FontLab’s TransType (Universal Font Converter) or Acute Systems’ CrossFont, to convert Mac OS fonts to Windows fonts.

Handle missing fonts

You can specify how you want uProduce to handle missing fonts during production. The dialogs for production preferences or settings prompt you to specify whether you would like to ignore the error, or fail the job in case of missing fonts.