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I have had fonts on my system that were subset in a PDF and when I went to edit the file I could not. When the fonts were not subset and on my system I could edit text. So my experience is that I have to have the fonts embedded in the PDF file to edit it. I don't know about embedded fonts that are not on my system, I have never tried. -- Kenton Smith Production Director/Designer Scrapbook Retailer Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/31/04 10:59 AM, "Dov Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
