"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.
Correct.
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.
Correct.
OR Acrobat may use OS installed fonts - BUT either way, there is NO GUARANTEE that the font will be the same one...(and in fact, it's a good bet that it won't be).
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.
Correct.
Currently in the PDFS we are generating from ITEXT we do not embed the font. Should we rather do so?
YES!!!!
Leonard
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