On Saturday 30 April 2005 00:08, Asif Lodhi wrote: > The "Acrobat Reader/Advanced Settings" section of the "DTP Toolbox" > node of the documentation says: > > "Advanced Settings - Unfortunately, Adobe did not enable a > graphical UI choice for enabling/disabling local fonts. What this > means Acrobat will use locally installed fonts which are named in > the PDF, if it can find them in your font path. In your home > directory is a .acrobat/prefs file. Make a backup copy then open > this file in a text editor. Almost at the end you are looking for > this line: > > /avpUseLocalFonts [/b true]" >
This affects only Acro Reader 5+ > I don't have this setting in my adobe preference file. It is a menu choice, common on all Reader 7 versions Windows and Linux. I've not tested MACOSX yet. > I am using > the latest Acrobat reader (7 something) for linux. Please note that > I am not questioning the documentation. I am only curious as to > whether the local fonts are being used or not as I am currently > exploring the documentation in detail. > > - - - > Best regards > > Asif Note, this *is* cvs. There are parts of the docs which are getting re-written and are being proofed. 1.2.2 final release will have everything carefully proofed. Peter
