Sérgio Oliveira wrote: > As the book says: Standard Type 1 fonts are a set of 14 fonts that are > required to be available in all PDF consumer applications. According to > the table presented: Times-Roman is a Type 1 Font.
Yes, in old versions of Acrobat (and other PDF viewers), the Type 1 font was shipped with the product. > However, "Adobe Reader replaced the Type 1 font Times-Roman with the > TrueType font Times New Roman PS MT. The font wasn’t embedded!". Yes, you will have a hard time finding those old versions I just referred too, because nowadays the availability of one of the formerly called 'base 14 fonts' means that there is a font available on the OS that is an exact replica of the Type 1 font. If you use one of the standard Type 1 fonts in your PDF, you can safely assume that the text will be rendered the way you expect it. However the viewer may choose to use a TTF font instead of a Type 1 font. > My first question is, if type 1 fonts are Adobe fonts, why acrobat use a > TTF instead of a type 1 font. Why? That's a question for Leonard. > For what I understood, if I want to use a Times Roman Type 1 font > (embedded), I will need to give the path to the pfb file,µ Yes. > but where can I find this file? Good question. > If this is a Type 1 font (Adobe font), shouldn´t it > came with acrobat reader? (The only pfb files I found in the Acrobat > directory was something like this: ZY______.PFB). Maybe you can find the PFB in very old Acrobat Reader version, BUT: make sure you read the license information. It's not because a font is shipped with Adobe Reader (for instance if you download a font pack) for free, that you automatically have the right to embed the font in your PDF documents. br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
