This document from adobe described that Helvetica and Times are no longer standard fonts in 4.0 and later versions of Acrobat.
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/19ce6.htm MT Arial and MT Times New Roman are the new standard fonts to replace them. Anyone know offhand if you can specify "MT Arial" as a font family in FOP and it not require it to be embedded? Michael Teator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Teator, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:12 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Helvetica Standard Font not found Same issue happens here. Even if I try embedding the Helvetica, on my machine it still shows it as using Arial as the actual font. Embedding is also scary, we have one product that has Arial Narrow embedded and a couple other special use fonts, and many users report it either causes their Reader to crash or the printouts are corrupted. We've tested with .4, .5rc2 and .5rc3a, but all versions produce the same results. Michael Teator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Helvetica Standard Font not found I suffer from a similar problem. I specified Helvetica for my document, to assure portability, but it does not work well, because although Helvetica and its variants Bold and BoldOblique are correctly listed as original fonts, Acrobat Reader uses Arial to show and print the document. (Yes, I know they look alike but there are significant differences.) Does somebody known why? Does it has something to do with Postscript font substitution tables? (They scare the hell out of me, they are more a nuisance than a commodity.) ============================================= Marcelo Jaccoud Amaral mailto:jaccoud [at] petrobras.com.br voice: +55 21 2534-3485 fax: +55 21 2534-1809 ============================================= There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. "Teator, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ology.com> cc: Assunto: Helvetica Standard Font not found 28/05/2003 09:47 Favor responder a fop-user We are generating PDFs via FOP and decided to use the Helvetica font since it was one of the 'guaranteed to be there' fonts. However, we have a significant percentage of users that are complaining they can not display the PDF properly because Reader is reporting that Helvetica cannot be found. The versions of Reader are varied, but even users with 5.1 are having this problem. Any ideas? Michael Teator [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]