--- avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > > "Christoph Sch?fer" wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a question to the font technology/PDF gurus > here on the list: > > > > In the docs, we can read "OpenType Fonts cannot be > fully embedded by > > default. This greatly simplifies handling them in > other applications." The > > question is: How does InDesign manage to embed OTF > fonts? And why are OTF > > fonts embedded as TTF in InDesign PDFs? > > > > I guess they embed it either as CFF or TTF font, > ignoring any special OTF > tables. Embedding OTF as OTF was only included in a > later version of the PDF > format (1.5 or 1.6 IIRC). > I only found out yesterday how to retrieve a CFF > font from a OTF with > PostScript outlines. > I might tackle that at some time in the future, but > it would need extensive > testing to make sure it *really* works as expected. >
We've started to discuss the probable ID's way of embedding OTF fonts in PDF<1.6 as Type1 font subsets in this RFE (see the last 3 notes and the attached PDF which refers to embedded MinionPro subset as Type1 fonts): http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=3701 I've submitted also a separate RFE for this procedure (just in case somebody would like to look deeper into it): http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4562 which lists this FOSS tool: http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/cfftot1.1.html cheers Maciej ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" ? The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
