Steven Dayton wrote: > I sent this out without a subject line so here it is again. > > Concerning fonts documentation talks about true type fonts but makes no > mention of open type fonts. I have an open type font from Adobe and pretty > sure it is a good quality font. It seems to work fine in my documents as I > have used it. I'm not doing anything so far for high end printing but for > screen viewing PDF. > > When I go to make a PDF and select the font tab in the Save As PDF dialog > none of the fonts can be placed in the Fonts to embed field. They only > appear in the Fonts to outline field. I don't want the fonts to be outlined > for online viewing so when I select each one and click the arrow button that > points to the Fonts to embed field above they are removed from the Fonts to > outline field. The obvious thing must be the fonts. > > I want to be able to embed and subset the fonts. I couldn't see any way to > do that in Scribus so my work around is opening the resulting PDF in Acrobat > 9 Professional Extended and running a Preflight Fixup that embeds and > subsets the font there by making for a smaller size. > > I'm working with both 1.3.3.13 and 1.3.5 versions. > Typically, if there is no option to embed, it means you can't embed this font. OTF fonts are not embeddable, and some TTF fonts may also not be embeddable.
Greg
