Scott Moore wrote:
Thanks for all the responses. I'm gonna go with the assumption that
Helvetica = Arial and not embed the Arial.TTF file, which bloats the PDF.
According to
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/filefmtspecs/PDFReference.pdf
page 795, Helvetica, Arial and ArialMT are something like synonyms
for the built-in sans-serif font. I vaguely remember I read somewhere
else on the Adobe site that the 5 font-families supported are Times
New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Symbol and Zapf Dingbats, which are
incidentally the names of the fonts used in MS Windows. The font
metrics file from Adobe uses Helvetica, the canonical name.
AFAIK the real fonts Helvetica, Arial and Arial MT are somewhat
different, the latter two are designed to resemble the first,
which is historically the first being designed, while still
have enough differences in details to avoid copyright problems and
accusations of plagiarism.
J.Pietschmann
