At 03:46 PM 6/1/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I would think that if you had a pdf and you added a Text Field to it 
>in Acrobat
>then specified the font to use in this field as *not* one of the 
>base 14 fonts,
>it would embed the entire font not a subset.

         That is EXACTLY what Adobe Acrobat does.


>   Also, I get that kerning
>information is not saved for text on a page as it is rendered as specific
>characters at specific positions

         Correct.


>but if the font were to be used in a form
>field, wouldn't the kerning information need to be included in the file since
>the user could type anything into the field?

         ONLY if the text engine that did the dynamic filling 
supported that information - as of Acrobat 7, it is still not supported.


Leonard

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