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Quite frankly, it buys you absolutely nothing to fully embed a
font in terms of "editability" of a PDF file.
When you use Acrobat's Text Touch-Up Tool or the text edit
features within Enfocus PitStop, it is irrelevant as to whether
the font is subset or not. Both of these tools require that the
font be installed on your system anyway and gets any "missing"
glyphs from that copy.
The downside of not subset embedding is that you can get
dramatic file bloat due to all those un-referenced glyph
definitions in your PDF file.
- Dov
At 3/31/2004 09:49 AM, Rich Sprague wrote:
>Not really.
>
>Rich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of Kenton Smith
>Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:42 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [PDF] embedding v/s not embedding font
>
>I always turn subset off, just in case I need to edit something. Is there a
>reason, besides file size, that I should have the fonts subset?
>--
>Kenton Smith
>Production Director/Designer
>Scrapbook Retailer Magazine
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>On 3/31/04 10:14 AM, "Dov Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> At 3/31/2004 02:50 AM, MN wrote:
>>
>>> what could be the scenarios under which we should embed or not embed the
>>> fonts
>>> in a pdf. if any one can list out advantage/ disadvantages for this
>>> or any link on such resource will be very useful.
>>>
>>> thanks...
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> MN
>>
>>
>> In the general case, you should always embed fonts (subsetted).
>> When you DON'T embed the fonts and the PDF file is displayed
>> and/or printed by someone who does NOT have those fonts installed
>> on their computer system, at BEST the quality and style of the
>> type does not match those of the original document. At WORST,
>> certain characters may be improperly displayed or printed or not
>> displayed or printed at all. PDF files without embedded fonts
>> are a real crapshoot!
>>
>> - Dov
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