At 09:05 AM 6/10/2006, Peter B. West wrote:
>The notion in the back of my mind has been that
>the reproducability of a PDF page based on the Base14 fonts was
>dependant on the availability of an identical font in the renderer.
That is correct - but it's no different from any other
non-embedded font. Exact rendering requires the EXACT font on the
display system that was used on the creating system.
And that's what Adobe realized between Acrobat 4 & 5 - that
they didn't need to carry around their own copies of the fonts since
there weren't going to be the exact versions. Instead, they starting
relying on the host OS to provide the fonts SINCE THEY would have
been the fonts used to create the PDF. Also not 100% (as Helvetica
and Arial are close, but not exact, etc.) - but better.
LDR
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