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At 3/29/2004 12:30 PM, Rich Sprague wrote:
>A. System fonts (Times New Roman and Arial) do not need to be embedded.
I disagree vehemently. Current versions of Acrobat make
no assumptions about font availability on the receiving
end. If you don't embed a font and you use any characters
other than a subset of Western Latin characters, the
Distiller will indeed attempt to embed whatever font
you are using and if it fails and the exact same font
isn't on the recipient's system, you are risking their
inability to read what you produced. By the way, although
the Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New fonts under
Windows have over 1400 distinct character definitions, the
Macintosh versions contain less than 300 such definitions,
for example!
Best rule is to always embed fonts regardless of how "common"
you think the font happens to be! No "ifs", "ands", or "buts"
about it!
- Dov
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