Hi, I was recently forwarded the following piece of information.
"In the years since this release of the Library and DLI came out, Adobe has ceased distributing the standard (or "base") 14 fonts with Acrobat and Reader, instead providing only MultiMaster serif and sans-serif fonts, and Pi symbol or ZapfDingbat fonts (I don't recall the exact list at this moment), along with Cmap files for the different encodings. Therefore you should not assume that your recipient is going to have exactly the fonts that your document is calling for: they may be simulated via a MultiMaster font instead. In particular, Helvetica has not been part of the basic Acrobat/Reader release for many years; it was replaced by the near-lookalike font Arial with the release of the v5.x series. So the recommended way to ensure that your document will look exactly as you want it, regardless of the capabilities of the recipient's machine, is to embed and subset the fonts it needs, right in the document. You should find that the file size will not be too excessive (subsetting will embed only those glyphs that are actually used in the document), and it makes your document much more stable as a result, in terms of viewing and printing." Is this true? Currently in the PDFS we are generating from ITEXT we do not embed the font. Should we rather do so? Thanks Andr� ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
