You need to use a font search path if the fonts for the job are not available.
The font search path specifies the location of the fonts. You can copy a font search path from an existing job when you create a new job, or you can set the font search path later, from Job Manager.
You do not need to set a font search path when either of the following is true:
- The fonts are embedded in the job files
- The fonts are in the
<Job Folder>\Fontsfolder
When Prinergy processes a job and detects that fonts are missing, it automatically looks in the following places, in the following order:
- The location specified in the font search path for the job
- The
<Job Folder>\Fontsfolder (for fonts converted for a specific job) - The
%AraxiHome%\CreoAraxi\Data\Fontsfolder (for fonts converted for all jobs)
When the fonts you want to use for the job are located in two or more folders, you must add a search path for each folder that you want Prinergy to search, and specify the order in which you want Prinergy to search the folders.
Missing or non-embedded fonts can be embedded into the PDF during the refining process. The font locations which the refiner uses for embedding are:
- Normalizer fonts:
%AraxiHome%\AdobeExtreme\bin\fonts - Global font converter fonts:
%AraxiHome%\CreoAraxi\data\fonts - Job font converter fonts:
<Job Folder>\Fonts
Note: The 14 base fonts are automatically embedded during refining. Therefore, the Prinergy normalize function will not detect missing 14 base fonts in a PDF file. To avoid this, customers can either:
- Clear the Ignore the 14 base fonts check box in the Preflight Profile Editor.
- Move the Normalizer fonts (except for Courier) out of the
%AraxiHome%\AdobeExtreme\bin\fontsfolder. This prohibits the normalize function from embedding missing fonts, and causes the normalize function to fail even for the missing 14 base fonts.