On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:54:04PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote: > to be sure that all fonts are embedded (I thought all PDF did that).
Certainly not. "Emdedded fonts" means the entire fontset needed to display is actually in the document, rather than just a reference to the font. There's a similar standard for archival purposes (PDF/A) that also has these rules. This feature is slightly controversial in the archives world, because in archives it's common to have a series of documents all rendered the same way (think of newspapers, for instance -- the same font every day), and it's clumsy to have to keep a whole copy of the font with every document when you could just archive it once, and then re-use it for everything in the series. Which reminds me to ask whether anyone knows which LaTeX versions output PDFs that are in fact PDF/A? It'd be nice to tag them if so. A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] Shinkuro, Inc.
