In a message dated 18/12/2008 16:11:32 GMT Standard Time, jal...@smartdm.ca writes:
Web Kracked wrote: > In style sheets for my web sites, I list many "similar" fonts to be used > for the > serif and san-serif font options. I would say that a MS user and a Mac user > would have at least one of these fonts installed. Linux should have one > as well. > I list the fonts is order of preference, including the "core" fonts > names from > MS and Mac installs (somewhere on the lists). That is the proper way to attempt to have viewers see fonts that you think are acceptable for whatever you are trying to do. (In most cases, even if the user happens to have none of the fonts you are coding, the user may still see acceptable results if they have at least one font installed that covers every character you are printing.) > I tried, once, to get all the needed "items" to actually embed the fonts > into a > web page so you would get the exact font, even if it was not installed. > That > was a nightmare and I told the people who wanted it done what it would cost > them. They decided it was not worth it, thank God. No, it isn’t worth it. Users are normally accessing a web site for information, and don’t particularly care what font it is in, as long as it is reasonably readable. > I used PDF to do embedded fonts in documents, but that was with Acrobat, > and the option was not a default. I still have not seen if doPDF does > it, since > I cannot find any option for it. Still, if I have to, I would go to my > file server > machine, since Acrobat is installed on it. My version do not work with > Vista. > Well doPDF works faster than Acrobat did anyway. Almost all PDF creators, including the one in OpenOffice.org, embed fonts by default. So there is likely to be no option you can set. You can easily check that the fonts have been embedded by opening the PDF on a system that does not have those fonts or by temporarily removing the fonts from your current system. Jim Allan
