On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:33:26 +0300 Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
> Owen wrote: > >> Craig Bradney wrote: > >>> On Thursday 11 September 2008 21:19:34 Nigel Ridley wrote: > > > >> I just opened my 'test' PDF and noticed that the 'fonts' are now an > >> image and can't be selected > >> as text (that's good in one respect - no one can copy the text > >> into a text editor and reuse it - > >> kind of like an imbeded copyright). > >> The downside is that the 'text' loses some of it's quality - it's > >> not 'sharp' anymore. > >> > >>> Embed dumps the font file into the PDF for reuse by the reader > >>> software. One > >>> day we will also have subset where only the use glyphs will be > >>> included. > >> Will this keep the quality of the text as sharp as 'embed'? > > > > > > Who is the intended audience? > > email recipients - some older folks (with [probably] poor > eye-sight ;-) ) > > > > > What does it look like? Can you tell the difference? > > I'm not so old, and with my reading glasses on.... yes, I can see the > difference - but then I _know_ that there is a difference! > > > > > On what are you looking at it? > > Laptop. > > > > > > > Owen > > > > The font used is 'Times New Roman' (it looks really good when > printed), but doesn't look that wonderful on screen. Perhaps I need > another 'layer' with a [good] font for the email [computer screen] > version. Got a suggestion for something that looks good and clean on > screen (and has similar size rendering as New Times Roman, so that I > won't have to adjust the layout of the text and graphics too much)? I am sure I will be corrected if wrong, but rendering of fonts on lcd screens is a bit different to that of a monitor. To start with, you need to ensure your lcd is working at its native resolution before you even think of trying to get a good display of a font. I don't know if this font is better than that font for an lcd, though if I were interested, I would experiment with all available suitable fonts. Furthermore, if you wish to reach a wide audience, I would also ensure that it looks ok on a few monitors and different resolutions, and I would assume your readers were using Acrobat reader. You are not going to get perfection, the trick is to make a reasonable compromise. my $0.02 worth -- Owen
