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>OK, time to pay for my hubris. Turns out that my Visio-to-AI conversions
>lost their font definitions -- Comic Sans MS became Arial, etc. Any ideas?
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Yes. Visio has a built-in export censor that wakes up and says, " ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD EVER USE COMIC SANS IN A TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATION!!!" and automatically converts all instances to Arial. Sorry, Dan, Microsoft knows better than you.
;-)
Dick
PS: Just kidding (sorta). Look for an "embed fonts" control on the Visio export dialog. (I'm traveling and don't have Visio on this computer, so I can't check for you.)
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