>I use Adobe InDesign. InDesign gives lots of choices for export, >including prepress, crop marks, compressing images, embedding fonts >[default], compatibility with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader. Only >Postscript fonts can be embedded [? maybe]. A PDF/X file embeds lots of >extra information for offset printing, but I don't know if that includes >fonts. It's a choice in the OS X print dialog box.
Yes, PDF/X includes the fonts and they don't have to be PostScript. Simplicity is the point of this standard. It is a complete ready-to-print package. It is a dumbed-down version of PDF that includes only the features that have been proved to be bullet proof. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************