Hi,
We are producing books which frequently involve incorporating PDFs produced by numerous other sources. Many of these are IRS forms which often do not have all the fonts embedded. The substitution fonts appear to work well enough for this purpose as the output on our lasers is certainly good enough. I, in fact, cannot even tell where the substitution fonts might be kicking in, at least on the generic-looking IRS forms. (Note that these are not PDF "dynamic" forms, just forms in the traditional sense). The final PDF we supply to our vendor includes these PDFs, merged with our own carefully made and flightchecked files. However, our print vendor (these are ultimately printed digitally) feels that it is possible that we'd get different output from our "proofing" laserprinters than they will on the final job -- or at least that it could happen. I was under the impression that the output of the substitution fonts would be identical from one postscript printer to the next and thus, if it looks OK here, it should look OK when they run the job. Can anyone enlighten me on this?
Thanks,
Matthew Born
American Law Institute
