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Dov,
Thanks, I think I've discussed this with you
before.
The answer is OK, except that I have the
same display problem with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Help file! So, I guess Adobe
doesn't follow its own advice. ;-)
Thanks again,
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 8:44
PM
Subject: Re: [PDF] Base 14 fonts in
Acrobat 6
At 12/12/2003 07:16 PM, John Lansberry wrote:
I have a
major problem displaying the Times font in Acrobat
6.
All Times-Italic (Base 14)
fonts in my PDF documents display incorrectly in Acrobat 6 unless I embed
them.
I've found a presentation
from PDF Sages that suggests that Acrobat 6 only ships with Adobe fonts - NO
BASE 14!
Is this the cause of my
problems? Is Acrobat 6 substituting incorrectly for
Times-Italic?
Thanks,
John
John,
Since Acrobat 4, there
as been no real concept of "base fonts" for Acrobat and PDF.
All fonts
should be embedded, no "ifs", "ands", or "buts" about it.
If you have a
PDF file referencing "Times Italic" but not embedded, Acrobat 6 and
Adobe
Reader 6 will attempt to find "Times Italic" on your system. If not
installed, it attempts
to find "Times New Roman Italic" and substitute
that. Failing that, it attempts to use
its built-in Adobe Serif font. Of
course, if your PDF file was created with a font named
"Times Italic" but
with some oddball encoding or modification from the original Times
Italic
font used by Adobe, by not having the font embedded you could end up
with
rather strange
results.
-
Dov
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