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> >I use an common internal representation for all the fonts which is a part of > >the main system I am extending. That's why I don't have access (nor want) to > >have access to the font programs themselves. > > If you don't have access to the font programs themselves, how do > you plan to embed the font program data into the PDF!??! I apologize, I expressed myself incorrectly. The main system accesses the font programs and converts them to an internal data structure. I use that internal data structure to produce a type1 font to embed in the PDF. > Not really - if you consider what the purpose of PDF has been > since day 1. A GUARANTEED representation of content on any platform. If > the text were to kern on one machine, but not another - that wouldn't be > acceptable... Hum, I guess if I was Adobe I could do the kerning dependent on the reader and not on the format. Nowadays without the kerning issue I can get different visualizations of the same doc in the same machine by using different PDF readers. It seems to me more reasonable the reader doing the kerning automatically instead of me by adjusting the coordinate of every single char of a text. If I have to adjust every single char in the text in order to have kerned text, I will end up with a significantly bigger file size, not to talk about the hassle it is. To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
