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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: from the freely available Windows version of Adobe Illustrator. illustrator is not free nor has it ever been free. "freely available" does not mean that it's "free". It may have been better if Ragnusen Ultred had written "readily available". no difference. you are pirating it. Not necessarily. yes necessarily. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
In article , Mayayana
wrote: | you are pirating it. | | Not necessarily. Those programs were actually put online by Adobe some time ago. Adobe themselves provided the keys. There were license terms with the downloads that said they were only valid if obtained from Adobe directly. Check. So it's all perfectly legal. nope. the license terms stated that cs2 is for those who already have an existing cs2 license. it is *not* nor never was intended to be able to leech a copy. period. Later Adobe altered the terms to say the download was intended only for people who had bought the programs but had lost the media and key. nope. they never altered anything. My guess is just that, and completely wrong. that they were offering them to get new customers who might then want to mortgage their house to buy the latest version. nonsense. it was a (then) 8 year old version that hadn't been sold in years and would not run on existing hardware or operating systems anymore, therefore they could not justify keeping the activation servers online. new customers were buying new versions, at the time, either cs6 or creative cloud. your guess is not even remotely close. Then it probably turned out that there were no new suckers to be had. Only people who were interested in Adobe products *if* they were free. So Adobe backtracked and officially claimed that, "Yes, we're giving this stuff away. But not really." like i said, your 'guess' is wrong. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
Am Sat, 31 Mar 2018 22:01:46 +1300, schrieb Eric Stevens:
"freely available" does not mean that it's "free". Hi Eric, I don't know you so I need to know if you're coming from the Mac side or the adult side (rec.photo.digital). If you're coming from the Mac side, then it's understanable that you're in keeping with all the Apple children that they latch on to silly semantics instead of the tougher technical topic which is being asked. If you're coming from the adult side, I would simply ask you to answer the technical question, which has no bearing on what the legal position of the tools is (which, I might add, the adults on the Windows side already hashed out to a level of detail that puts the silly Mac users to instant shame). In short, a. If you're coming from the Mac side, then you have no helpful intent, nor do you have any technical capability to answer the question, so, it's understandable that you latch, instead, tenaciously on silly semantic games. b. If you're coming from the adult side, then I already pointed you to the adult side of that non-technical legal tangent, where your immense confusion will be allayed. Now back to the question at hand which has nothing to do with silly semantics that the Apple users /always/ latch onto because they can't or they refuse to answer even the /simplest/ of technical questions. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
Am Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:16:49 -0400, schrieb Mayayana:
Those programs were actually put online by Adobe some time ago. Adobe themselves provided the keys. There were license terms with the downloads that said they were only valid if obtained from Adobe directly. Check. So it's all perfectly legal. Later Adobe altered the terms to say the download was intended only for people who had bought the programs but had lost the media and key. My guess is that they were offering them to get new customers who might then want to mortgage their house to buy the latest version. Then it probably turned out that there were no new suckers to be had. Only people who were interested in Adobe products *if* they were free. So Adobe backtracked and officially claimed that, "Yes, we're giving this stuff away. But not really." Thank you Mayayana for explaining the legalities which were already hashed out in the adult newsgroup (Windows 10) and where I do appreciate that you took the time and effort to explain this to Mr. Eric Stevens. However ... If this guy is from the Apple side, just explaining facts to them is like explaining to a child why he can't have his hand in the cookie jar. It's completely lost on these Apple children. Always. It's repeatable as the sun rising every morning. It doesn't matter what the facts are. Just watch. The Apple children, such as nospam has proven himself to be, will always prove three points: a. They have no intention to be helpful, ever, and, b. They don't actually know the answer to the question, and, c. They always just guess (where their success rate is that of the monkey) Hence ... They can only play their incessant silly semantic games. Don't believe me. Let them prove it themselves. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
In article , Ragnusen Ultred
wrote: Am Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:16:49 -0400, schrieb Mayayana: Those programs were actually put online by Adobe some time ago. Adobe themselves provided the keys. There were license terms with the downloads that said they were only valid if obtained from Adobe directly. Check. So it's all perfectly legal. Later Adobe altered the terms to say the download was intended only for people who had bought the programs but had lost the media and key. My guess is that they were offering them to get new customers who might then want to mortgage their house to buy the latest version. Then it probably turned out that there were no new suckers to be had. Only people who were interested in Adobe products *if* they were free. So Adobe backtracked and officially claimed that, "Yes, we're giving this stuff away. But not really." Thank you Mayayana for explaining the legalities which were already hashed out in the adult newsgroup (Windows 10) and where I do appreciate that you took the time and effort to explain this to Mr. Eric Stevens. you two make a perfect pair. both of you are completely delusional. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
Am Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:22:21 -0400, schrieb Mayayana:
Don't try to bring me into this. You're cross-posting to a Mac group for no good reason, then repeatedly insulting them. And that's after you already multi-posted to numerous groups to answer one simple question. No one owes it to you to be helpful. Fair enough. But watch what happens the /instant/ the Apple users, like nospam is, get involved. Just watch. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
Am Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:42:57 -0400, schrieb nospam:
you two make a perfect pair. both of you are completely delusional. Notice you prove, in /every/ post the veracity of my statements. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
In article , Ragnusen Ultred
wrote: But watch what happens the /instant/ the Apple users, like nospam is, get involved. he exposes the true trolls, you and your new bff, mayayana. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
On 2018-03-31 09:01:46 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 01:10:49 -0400, nospam wrote: In article , Ragnusen Ultred wrote: from the freely available Windows version of Adobe Illustrator. illustrator is not free nor has it ever been free. "freely available" does not mean that it's "free". It may have been better if Ragnusen Ultred had written "readily available". you are pirating it. Not necessarily. If you're downloading the tweaked versions from Adobe without actually owning a licence, then yes, you are pirating it. The instructions on Aodbe's download page specifically say you have to already own a licence. |
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Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?
Am Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:46:18 -0400, schrieb nospam:
he exposes the true trolls, you and your new bff, mayayana. While you, nospam, always prove in every post that... 1. You lack technical competency 2. Hence, you merely guess (scoring about how the monkeys do) 3. Worse, you purposefully post only with malice and ill intent. Meanwhile, on the adult platform newsgroup, we made tremendous progress, and have solved the problem, with this verbatim snippet simply being just one examples of the solutions proposed. *** *** *** *** Adult purposefully helpful post from Paul *** *** *** *** https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4...uite-free.html Last updated: January 14, 2013 Windows Serial number: 1130-1414-7569-4457-6613-5551 Developer: Adobe, License: Commercial OS: Windows File size: 1.5 GB Installation: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/...nstall_Win.pdf Tutorial: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/.../MLTI/VCS2.zip In the CS2 incident, Adobe pulled the plug on their Activation Server. This would have left legitimate customers with no means to re-install the software when they wanted. This was still "buy to own" software back in those days, and not rental software. You would think that most customers would have registered their purchase, and Adobe could mail some sort of details to each customer, with a means of resolving the issue. Instead, Adobe put up copies of the executable installers, along with some sort of "generic" keys for each tool. People started downloading both the license keys, and the executables, who had not purchased the product originally. (Like this is a surprise.) After a while, Adobe sent out a press release indicating this wasn't some hidden intent. This wasn't "trial" software. And at that point, the software wasn't their current version. It was an older version. The presumption at the time was, the keys were cracked, and the Activation Server really wasn't achieving anything. People who might have been pirating the stuff, were probably getting hacked executables and so on. But there isn't any additional information or background story, as to why Adobe chose this route to solve the "legit customer" problem with having an Activation Server turned off. The whole episode was... pretty weird. Sites continue, to this day, to present links to copies of that software. Adobe might have required a user to set up an Adobe Account (just like when you used to do a Trial with Adobe), to "gate" the download of those. People who present copies today like TechSpot, do it so users don't have to get an Adobe Account just to get the files. There is a trick to installing it. Each EXE has an unpacker. The first CD also includes an installer that starts right away. You can unpack the software, anywhere you want. I put the unpacked materials on C:\CS2 for example. When "1" unpacks, it creates a folder "Adobe Creative CS2" or similar, and underneath that, you might see one tool folder. When you unpack 2,3,4 EXEs, you can copy the two or one or four folders, and put them under C:\CS2\Adobe Creative CS2\ in parallel with the tools on 1. This builds a folder with everything in it, and the installer "stops asking for CD 2". You might want to practice in a VM first, until you get the hang of it. Anyway, the purpose of the post, was to show that *some* representation does open in Adobe Illustrator, if you pass a PDF. The steps to post-process the work, to you or me don't seem onerous, but the person actually doing the workflow will have their own rules and methods of conducting business. Generally, for embedded fonts, the intention is not to "carry" embedded versions through multiple tools in a workflow. Any time a font needs to be processed, the tool expects the full font to be available. This "proves" the font is licensed for one thing, or that the owner actually has a full copy of the font. The font itself may have licensing bits, which indicate whether copies or embeds can be done Full Font | Tool 1 Full Font | | +---- (embed font for ---- import --- Tool 2 print purposes) | +--- embed subset... That could be why the operator feels the need to "load" the font for your "job". In the case of my LibreOffice experiment, it was two fonts, because one font seems to be erroneously referenced in the PDF. People who do that sort of work, use "Font Managers". A Font Manager may have folders with 10,000 fonts in it, and the Font Manager loads only a subset into the system. This covers situations where the system doesn't actually behave well if there are 10,000 fonts in the system folder. I think I did a test like that once, and the OS was borked well before getting to a high number like that. So they might not "load" your font in a conventional sense, but make it an entry in the Font Manager which is loaded as a subset for the job. Paul *** *** *** *** Adult purposefully helpful post from Paul *** *** *** *** The PDF seems to work. Here is a simulation. 1) Sample file made in LibreOffice Impress (the equivalent of PowerPoint). I selected a paper size of 17"x11" and I don't know if I could have selected a paper size that you wanted. In any case, this is the PDF exported from LibreOffice. The fonts are embedded. I didn't want to put the word "squirrel" at the top of the drawing, and LibreOffice tries to embed LiberationSerif font for nothing. I added the title "squirrel" and applied LibrationSerif font, so it would have something to embed. This stopped one warning from Acrobat Reader when I verified the document exported. https://s17.postimg.org/hne85qcbj/ex...uirrel_pdf.gif 2) This is Illustrator CS2 pulling in the PDF. https://s17.postimg.org/4yjxm1qrj/illus_CS2.gif Illustrator complains about both fonts in this case, even though they're embedded. But it proceeds anyway to convert the font to outlines and it shows the control points as being selected. The operator would then have to create a CutContour where the red box I put around the outside is located. That's still going to cost you a "layout" charge, simply because the machine cannot start the printing process, unless a CutContour is defined. Illustrator has at least two kinds of data stored inside it, while PDF has only one. The Illustrator in a way, is a "dual representation". There's no point in me saving out the Illustrator .ai file, as it really wouldn't have any meaning (i.e. I don't have any more steps that I can realistically simulate). If you remember the CS2 incident, this is what I used for the simulation, in a VM. You need four files from this page, a copy of QuickTime 6.0.0 from oldversions, your squirrel4.pdf, to do the very quick Illustrator test. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4...uite-free.html This test doesn't prove much of anything, except that the PDF does pull into Illustrator. If you needed to "re-purpose" the artwork while it was inside Illustrator, it might be quite a challenge to do anything with it. It doesn't look like the importation is "seamless", at least, it doesn't give that impression so far. But for your purposes, it might not matter. I got the idea to do the test, from here. I didn't need to tick any boxes like "Convert All Text" or "Convert All Strokes" and the tool seemed to do more or less what you wanted automatically. http://blog.globalizationpartners.co...-are-lost.aspx The edge of the font looks pretty weird, and I don't know exactly how to describe how the font has been converted. It doesn't look exactly like Bezier. https://s17.postimg.org/ekijzkbf3/font_edges.gif Paul *** *** *** *** Adult purposefully helpful post from Paul *** *** *** *** |
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