[xep-support] embedding fonts in PDF -- adding embed="true" seems not to work for base fonts!

Patrick Goetz pgoetz at internetbs.com
Mon Mar 13 10:30:32 PST 2006


Jirka Kosek wrote:
> 
> You are probably talking about pdftex, which can produce PDF instead of 
> DVI files. It depends on pdftex configuration, but fonts like Helvetica 
> and Times are not embeded by pdftex because such fonts must be available 
> in all PDF viewers (it is requirement of PDF specification). The problem 
> is, that even different version of Adobe Reader comes with slightly 
> different fonts and rendering is not 100% accurate across platforms.
> 

This begs the question, then, why does XEP include the type 1 Helvetica, 
Times Roman, etc. font metrics at all?  Why not, for example, use the 
free fonts included with gs 
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/5.50/Fonts.htm)?



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