On 2011-06-24, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-06-24 13:13, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> Le Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:48:54 -0700 (PDT), >> plino<[email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> I really hope that revision 1.2 allows for font embedding in ODF >>> documents. >>> >>> IMO that is a (the?) major obstacle for sharing documents with other >>> users. >> >> So, let me state and restate this : ODF will not embed fonts in the >> 1.2, 1.3, nor in the future, because the format is not meant to focus on >> faithful layout rendering. Instead, PDF is meant that. ODF focuses on >> office document exchanges. >> > I wonder about this last statement, does this mean that if I download > a copy of our documentation in .odt format, that if my font is missing > from my machine that I will not be able to print a high quality > version of that documentation.
You will be able to print an high-quality version. It will just use another font. I mean, you lose quality in the meaning the font used is not the intended, but you don't lose quality as in definition or content. > And worse, if I download a copy of a > writer, impress file or draw and wish to print it off in its native > file, that I would then have to hunt around and make sure that all of > the necessary fonts used in a particular document would have to be > installed on my machine so that I could get a high quality print from > it? To be sure documents print the same way in different computers, you should use Adobe PostScript or Adobe Portable Document Format. I don't mean font embedding is not needed, but just that you're looking into a part of the problem that already has a solution, as far as you don't need the document to be editable. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
