Benjamin Dumke wrote: > Gregory Pittman schrieb: > >>> * The "Fonts to outline" box contains those fonts that will be converted >>> to outline. This does not mean creating graphics objects for every >>> letter on the page (like e.g. Inkscape would if you took a text object >>> and converted it to a path), but instead by converting the used glyphs >>> of this font to a type that PDF _can_ handle (Type 3 as the Adobe Reader >>> tells me) and embedding this resulting font into the PDF. >>> >>> Is this how it is supposed to work? >>> >>> >> No, to the best of my knowledge outlined fonts are converted to vector >> outlines. >> > > Why is it then, that when I use AR to check the properties of a PDF that > was created with all fonts in the "Fonts to outline" box I get something > like > > + Fo0S0 > Type: Type 3 > Encoding: Custom > Actual Font: Fo0S0 > Actual Font Type: Type 3 > > > for every font? > I don't know. I just exported the same document to PDF, one with outlines, one embedded. The one to outlines showed no fonts in Properties. Perhaps you also embedded also? If a font can be embedded, you can do both.
which PDF type are you exporting to? Greg
