>>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??
Pitstop Pro.
>>Are you printing the PDFs from Adobe Acrobat? What version? What
OS platform?
I'll have to check with our print vendor, but I believe it is Windows XP Pro, Acrobat 6, and an imposition plug-in.
>>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?
Yes, that's right, we make a single PDF and incorporate dozens of PDFs. Our files do not include the missing fonts, however. We use Acrobat 6 (Mac OS9 and Windows XP Pro) to merge the files.
Thanks for all your help, everyone, especially Dov Isaacs, who has given me a number of helpful ideas. Apparently the IRS is pretty consistent about using the same fonts, so I can embed them after the fact without having to license every known font on the planet. It won't help me in the cases where an author supplies us a document using a font we don't own (for complex reasons, we have to reproduce these as supplied, so changing fonts isn't an option), or one that cannot be embedded, but it does solve a large part of our problem.
Matthew Born
