On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:28 PM, David Thielen wrote:
We have been using Unicode for all of our output. Works great in
that we don’t need to worry about what characters are in a string.
But it means we always have embedded fonts – which is not good.
I disagree with this last statement. Embedding the fonts IS VERY
GOOD and VERY IMPORTANT. It is why EVERY SINGLE ISO subset PDF
standard (PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/VT) all require that fonts be
embedded.
DO NOT make the mistake of undoing what is the correct and proper
behavior.
What’s the “best practices” in this case? I prefer the concept of
keeping everything Unicode but we do need to offer PDF files that
are smaller (ie don’t have embedded fonts).
There are MANY OTHER ways to produce smaller sized PDFs than to
simply stop embedding fonts.
Leonard
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