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At 12:08 PM 7/29/2003 -0400, Matthew Born wrote:
We are producing books which frequently involve incorporating PDFs produced by numerous other sources.
OK.
Many of these are IRS forms which often do not have all the fonts embedded.
I would be surprised if that is the case, except in the case of the Base14. The IRS uses quite a modern system for creating their forms. How are you determing this??
The substitution fonts appear to work well enough for this purpose as the output on our lasers is certainly good enough.
Are you printing the PDFs from Adobe Acrobat? What version? What OS platform?
I, in fact, cannot even tell where the substitution fonts might be kicking in, at least on the generic-looking IRS forms.
Again, if it's the Base14 fonts it won't normally be a big deal - it's only for non-Base14 that problems may occur...
The final PDF we supply to our vendor includes these PDFs, merged with our own carefully made and flightchecked files.
As in you make a single PDF with both things incorporated? Do your files use the same font, but embedded? What tool(s) do you use to merge them together?
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
And he would be correct, DEPENDING on many criteria including the questions asked above as well as things such as what type of printer they are using, if they are printing from Acrobat or using a native PDF printing system, etc.
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