Embed Fonts in Save Page As EPS

One fea­ture of QuarkXPress around since the ear­ly days is Save Page As EPS, locat­ed on the File menu. The major draw­back to using this fea­ture, though, has always been that fonts aren’t embed­ded. Consequently, shar­ing or try­ing to RIP that EPS caused font sub­sti­tu­tion, which, in an EPS, is a real mess.

QuarkXPress 7, how­ev­er, makes much bet­ter EPSes.

From the File menu select Save Page As EPS, set the file name, choose the page to be export­ed, but don’t hit the Save but­ton just yet. See the Options but­ton at the bot­tom of the dia­log? Click it. In the new, multi-paned Save Page As EPS options dia­log, go to the Fonts pane. There, you will find all fonts in use on the page-that-would-be-EPS. Any miss­ing fonts show grey and in paren­the­ses. Check all the fonts you want to embed in the EPS–which, for max­i­mum com­pat­i­bil­i­ty, should be all of them. Click OK, and Save.