Re: [Boston.pm] Links and Fonts Re: October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

2016-10-22 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:22 PM, John Abreau wrote: > I think of PDF as digital paper, and I figure that if I'm printing to PDF, > the implication is that the document should be in an archival form. When I > export to PDF from LibreOffice, I always use the PDF/A-1a option. > > If

Re: [Boston.pm] Links and Fonts Re: October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

2016-10-12 Thread John Abreau
I think of PDF as digital paper, and I figure that if I'm printing to PDF, the implication is that the document should be in an archival form. When I export to PDF from LibreOffice, I always use the PDF/A-1a option. If it only embeds the characters used in the document, that accomplishes the

[Boston.pm] Links and Fonts Re: October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

2016-10-12 Thread Bill Ricker
Well, to answer Rickie's question, LibreOffice does have File > Properties > Fonts > [x] Font Embedding. But it made a < 1MB file into a 21 MB file. Ouch. No, not uploading that ! Not sure if it was contagious to the PDF Export or not ... that didn't bloat up, but if it only includes the used