Print shops and embedded fonts

With some print shops you may get an error back saying something like "This file was created with Mac OS X 10.4.11 Quartz PDFContext / Pages. We cannot print files created with this application."

Mac OS X embeds several subsets of the same font, just like many other applications. However, for some reason some printers (like Lulu) are not able to handle the way Mac OS X does it.

A solution that in some cases works is to create the PDF using Print > PDF > Print to PDF-X. In contrast to a standard PDF, which can be used for many purposes, a PDF-X file is dedicated to facilitate printing.

You can find some more information at the following sites:

• http://athleticaid.com/yaquinapress/PDF-FAQ.html#Mac_PDF_issues
• http://www.lulu.com/en/help/index.php?fSymbol=reasons_files_dont_print
• http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/osx_quartz
• http://www.lulu.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25428