Re: Why set font inclusion to none for Acrobat 5 on Mac OS

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shlomo is absolutely correct. And this is especially true under Windows!!

Note that on the Mac, letting the Distiller find the fonts (by specifying
no font inclusion in the driver options) is CRITICAL for proper use of
TrueType fonts. There is a bug in recent versions of the Apple-supplied 
"PrintingLib" module used by the AdobePS and LaserWriter drivers that
effectively causes all TrueType fonts put into the PostScript job stream
to be done so as converted, unhinted Type 1 outlines instead of Type 42
native TrueType fonts. The result of this bug is degraded output of
text formatted in TrueType fonts. Letting Distiller 5 find and embed the
fonts eliminates this problem on the Mac (MacOS 9 and earlier).

        - Dov


At 4/30/2002 02:21 PM, Shlomo Perets wrote:
>Lori,
>
>You wrote:
>
>>In Dov Isaacs' memorable post on dec 6 2001 (subject line: Creating PDF
>>files from FrameMaker Docs...), he advises that font inclusion should be set
>>to All for Acrobat 4.05, but to None for Acrobat 5.
>>I want to make sure that all of my fonts will be embedded in the pdf file,
>>why would I set font inclusion to none?
>
>Acrobat 5 has the capability to fully control font data for all font formats
>used in PDFs, embedding and subsetting fonts according to Distiller job
>options in effect.
>
>Depending on drivers/options used when creating the PS file being distilled
>(and often without any/sufficient control), font data included may be
>incomplete (eg subset to improve print performance). This reduces Distiller's
>control over the process (such as getting subset fonts even though subsetting
>was not specified in Distiller's job options).
>
>
>Shlomo Perets


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