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PS: There was no "problem" with Acrobat 4 and "system fonts" if
what you mean by "system fonts" are the "base 13 + Dingbats."
There has always been a big problem with Macintoshes that had
both the Adobe Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol, and Zapf Dingbats
Type 1 fonts installed along with the conflicting Apple-supplied
TrueType fonts of the exact same names (but obviously not the
exact same font).
- Dov
At 3/30/2004 07:19 AM, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>Beginning with Acrobat 4, all fonts that permitted embedding (i.e.,
>not TrueType/OpenType with fsType set for "no embedding") were
>embeddable including the legendary "base 13 + Dingbats."
>
>A PDF file that doesn't have the fonts it references embedded is
>a disaster-in-waiting!
>
> - Dov
>
>
>
>At 3/30/2004 07:02 AM, Rich Sprague wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>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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