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Many thanks to Dov, John and Olaf for helping with the CID font encoding issues and Acrobat. Jay Colorcom Publishing http://www.colorcom.com/ > >>Yes, there are some printers that have problems, some quite major, >>with CID-encoded fonts. However, most of those printers (they are >>printers that use "emulation" of PostScript, not Adobe PostScript) >>can be "fixed" with firmware or software upgrades from the vendors. >> > >Changing from "exported PDF" to "PDF via distillation" will NOT, >>repeat NOT, necessarily remove CID font encoding. The Distiller also >>often uses CID encoding when encountering non-Western Latin characters >>in PostScript streams presented to it. >> > > - Dov =================== > >CID fonts only seem cause problems with older RIPs, of which (of course) >still exist and are being used in production workflows in great numbers. > >They are 'academically legal' from a standards point of view, meaning that >no one should complain that they are somehow a broken approach for fonts - >as long as they are embedded, everyone should be able to display them >properly...but older RIPs sometimes have to be upgraded, and some RIPs may >not be able to process these fonts because they can't be upgraded. >From Enfocus Knowledge base; > > >Michael Jahn To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
