thanks Craig, 'CutePdf writer' already uses Ghostview but wasn't embedding fonts --or maybe my recipients weren't using Acrobat like R suggested. I'll try it out on some folks today.
s On Aug 26, 2007, at 4:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sean Smith wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I tried to send a pdf of a Fronimo file to a person who didn't have >> Fronimo. They couldn't read the file because they didn't have the >> fonts >> in their computer and the free pdf making program I use (CutePDF >> Writer) doesn't embed the fonts for the end user. Does anyone know of >> a >> free program that embeds the fonts when creating the pdf file? >> >> I will send this along to the Fronimo group too. > > Sean, > > I use Ghostview, available here; http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ > > You'll need to install a Postscript printer driver so you can create > the initial .PS file from Fronimo. Gsview then exports the .PS file > into a .PDF. I have used it mostly with Finale which also has its own > fonts, but no has ever reported a problem reading the resulting PDF > file. > > Regards, > Craig > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
