On 2011/02/13 12:05 AM Gary Schnabl wrote:
On 2/12/2011 10:30 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2011/02/12 8:46 PM Gary Schnabl wrote:
Thus, a PDF viewed on a monitor may appear different from its actual printed copy. And if
the viewer's computer system does not have the actual typefaces employed in the PDF, the
viewed PDF will have other typefaces substituted for the absent typefaces.
Not true. PDFs include embedded fonts and will appear identical on all systems regardless of
the fonts installed on a particular computer.
Larry
Not always...
Your previous statement "if the viewer's computer system does not have the actual typefaces
employed in the PDF, the viewed PDF will have other typefaces substituted for the absent
typefaces" implies that fonts are not embedded.
For example, the Adobe PDF printer file has a number of options for embedding or not
embedding fonts. According to one option, there is a check box in the Adobe PDF Settings
tabbed page (under the Adobe PDF Conversion Settings fields) for using system fonts. The
precise wording for that check box's text is: "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document
fonts".
We are referring to LibreOffice, not Adobe. I do not see any options to not embed fonts when
exporting a document to PDF. The usual advice for OOo, and I expect this applies to LibreOffice
as well is to send PDFs to people so they can read them as you formatted them regardless even
if they can not read the original file type you created them in.
The Fonts tabbed page in that printer file also contains other options for
embedding fonts.
Again, we are talking about LibreOffice, not Adobe.
Larry
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