On Feb 7, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
> 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.
>
Correct. However, Adobe stopped doing this with Acrobat 5.
>> 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.
>
I wouldn't say "exact replica".
There is a font available that "closely matches" a non-embedded
font. Since Acrobat 5, Adobe no longer considers the "Base14" to be
special in any way - they are simply non-embedded fonts like any
other and are treated the same way. So the same "font substitution
algorthms" are used to find a non-embedded Rumplefratz font as for
Times-Roman.
> 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.
>
I wouldn't make that assumption UNLESS you are using "low order ASCII".
> aybe 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.
Correct! You do NOT have the rights to use the fonts that are
included with Acrobat - they are private to Acrobat.
Leonard
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