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I've written a Java PDF generation app/library (reportmill) and for text support I wrote what I thought was clever code to encode font subsets as Type 3 fonts (this is much cheaper than encoding a whole TrueType font and much easier that dynamically constructing a TrueType font). However, the Acrobat Reader renders these on the screen in a ridiculously blocky way, which can be fixed if I can convince every user in the world to turn on their Preferences->Display->Smooth Line Art switch (does Adobe assume we're still using 25 Mhz machines? :-). The same text also renders fine to the printer or if zoomed up, and renders fine in other PDF viewers, such as Mac OS X Preview.
I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and write dynamic TrueType font file generation for my subsets, but I was hoping there was some secret to get Acrobat Reader to render Type 3 fonts the right way from inside my PDF (perhaps I'm missing something or doing something wrong?).
jeff martin http://reportmill.com 214.513.1636
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