Re: font advice sought

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Refrying" a PDF file is the term used to describe a process by
which an existing PDF file is "printed" to the Acrobat Distiller
PostScript driver instance and a new PDF file is created from the
resultant PostScript. (Often this process is done manually. 
Printing is done "to file" and the resultant file is opened
manually by the user in Distiller.)

Why would this be done? Several possibilities:

(1) Different job options could be applied that could reduce 
PDF file size by downsampling images or compressing them in a
different manner.

(2) Color management could be applied or removed.

(3) Transparency can be flattened.

This process, though, has its problems. The resultant PDF files
will likely have oddball font names as the result of the subset
names being further munged in the output. Text touch-up will
likely be problematic. Cascading conversions in and out of JPEG
could combined with cascading downsampling could yield very
poor images. Etc. The PostScript output from Acrobat and 
Acrobat Reader was designed specifically for printing and is
certainly not optimized for creation of PDF.

        - Dov


At 2/3/2003 05:52 AM, Larry.Kollar@ARRISI.COM wrote:
>> If in fact you do use them in PDF files, make sure you embed the
>> fonts and don't, repeat don't try any funny PDF refrying tricks.
>> Under refrying, Multiple Masters are very problematic.
>
>Um... Dov, what is a refried PDF? Is it good with salsa?
>
>--
>Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
>(wearing black today... per aspera ad astra)


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