https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97959
--- Comment #2 from T Martin <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Beluga from comment #1) > Maybe the reason behind it is this: > http://www.hamilton.ie/gavinmc/docs/timesinpdfs.html > > "There are a few exceptions however. There are a set of standard fonts (aka > the Base-14 fonts) which pdfs in general (including pdfLaTeX generated ones) > do not generally have embedded. These include Times and Helvetica. The > reason is that these fonts are standard and taken to already be available on > all systems (so embedding them would be redundant and wasteful of disk space > and bandwidth). > > The advantage of this is that by using these fonts you can make a nice small > PDF which will not need any fonts embedded. The disadvantage is that some > extended accent characters (eg vowels with macrons) may vary from one > person's Times font (or TeX's times clone) to another. This means that to > reliably get these characters you must embed your Times font in the PDF. It > is recommended that any book being sent to printers in PDF format have the > fonts embedded, even if it's in Times." "The disadvantage is that some extended accent characters (eg vowels with macrons) may vary from one person's Times font (or TeX's times clone) to another." characters "may" vary... LOL The above is a blanket statement full of weasel words. The cited paragraph discusses a problem about forced embedding. the mismatch in character mappings is NOT the problem. Some "contrarian" just added fodder to "enrich" the discussion. There is no proof in the disucssion above that someone has found that characters vary among fonts. Please let me know if that is the case so I can investigate the knock-offs in detail and fill a bug with the font author If you find that your "arial" knockoff has swapped the latters "a" and "b" what would you do? A) fix the font or B) always embed all fonts hope you go for A Thnaks -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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