On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on
Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as
different
from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it
silently substitute the font (possibly causing slight differences in
the
output?) Is it best for maximum portability to somehow force even
standard
fonts to be embedded in PDFs? This is assuming a fairly large document
where the extra space taken by an embedded font wouldn't be
significant.
Paul,
I cannot directly address your questions as I gave up trying to
completely
understand the new font system in LaTeX, and gave up about half-way
through
the fontinst process. However, I can tell you this: I've had no
complaints
over the years that I've used Palatino as the base text font in my
documents
and people have read the pdf output on machines running various
flavors of
Microsoft ... or Apple.
If you are willing to spend a few hours (well, more than a few....)
with Ph. Lehmannn's FontInstallation Guide, you'll be able to install
any Postscript Type 1 font you may desire. It consists of a series of
tutorials for Fontinst. On the other hand, if portability is a concern,
you should stick to the basic PDF fonts as other have suggested.
Acrobat reader
I've also used Bitstream Amerigo as the text font in documents
written in
OpenOffice.org and exported as pdf files. Again, no client, agency
staffer,
or anyone else has complained about a readability issue.
In brief, it's been a non-issue.
Rich
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