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Is it my foggy memory, or isn't this advice a major shift in theory from version 4? As I recall, at the time the theory was not to embed the system fonts in order to make a PDF smaller. I agree with both Dov and Leonard that one should always embed the fonts (which is the default in AB 5 and 6). But there were, and are, problems with Acrobat 4 and the system fonts. As I stated in my other post, the best bet is to upgrade AB and leave the font problems in the past. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ 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 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
