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Beginning with Acrobat 4, all fonts that permitted embedding (i.e.,
not TrueType/OpenType with fsType set for "no embedding") were
embeddable including the legendary "base 13 + Dingbats."
A PDF file that doesn't have the fonts it references embedded is
a disaster-in-waiting!
- Dov
At 3/30/2004 07:02 AM, Rich Sprague wrote:
>Is it my foggy memory, or isn't this advice a major shift in theory from
>version 4? As I recall, at the time the theory was not to embed the system
>fonts in order to make a PDF smaller.
>
>I agree with both Dov and Leonard that one should always embed the fonts
>(which is the default in AB 5 and 6). But there were, and are, problems with
>Acrobat 4 and the system fonts.
>
>As I stated in my other post, the best bet is to upgrade AB and leave the
>font problems in the past.
>
>Rich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of Dov Isaacs
>Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:40 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs
>
>
>At 3/29/2004 12:30 PM, Rich Sprague wrote:
>>A. System fonts (Times New Roman and Arial) do not need to be embedded.
>
>I disagree vehemently. Current versions of Acrobat make no assumptions about
>font availability on the receiving end. If you don't embed a font and you
>use any characters other than a subset of Western Latin characters, the
>Distiller will indeed attempt to embed whatever font you are using and if it
>fails and the exact same font isn't on the recipient's system, you are
>risking their inability to read what you produced. By the way, although the
>Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New fonts under Windows have over 1400
>distinct character definitions, the Macintosh versions contain less than 300
>such definitions, for example!
>
>Best rule is to always embed fonts regardless of how "common"
>you think the font happens to be! No "ifs", "ands", or "buts"
>about it!
>
> - Dov
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