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Yes, we have discussed this before. Neither I nor the Acrobat QA group
are able to duplicate the problem YOU have reported assuming that you
have not modified any of the system fonts on your computer.
- Dov
At 12/16/2003 04:58 PM, jelansberry wrote:
>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 -----
>From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Dov Isaacs
>To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>John Lansberry
>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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