Phabulous response. TYVM. As a bit of follow-up, I've found PDF to be the only "fairly functional" transfer mechanism, as you suggest. I migrated font to a more generic serif face, which was OK. Immediate project is a 2-sided trifold brochure, so AD did its best with a 2-layer result that is fairly workable. We'll see if the printer can work with distinct pdf's for front & back, else can surely work something out with tiff's or the like (or whatever CMYK based solution they'd like). Thanks for the extra effort on clarifying things for me - very useful.