Info from Dov ... Re: 4.0 Problems w/Helvetica

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am copying a Acrobat group post from Dov Isaacs regarding this issue. 
(Note, I first sent this a couple hours ago, but the frame list processor
outsmarted itself and thought that I was trying to send a message TO IT, but
incorrectly addressed.  Argh!)

Acrobat 4 supports all fonts just as did previous versions.  It is a question
of what fonts are shipping (free) with Acrobat.  

Jay Smith
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Subject       Re: 4.0 Problems w/Helvetica   
Date          Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:37:35 -0700
>From          Dov Isaacs <isaacs@Adobe.COM>
CC            "AcrobatTalk" <acrobat@blueworld.com>


Acrobat 4 certainly does fully support any and all fonts including
Times and Helvetica. The difference in Acrobat 4 is that Adobe no longer
ships Helvetica and Times as part of Acrobat.

(1) If you have an existing PDF file that references Times or Helvetica and
does not have it embedded, Acrobat 4 will display it with Monotype Times New
Roman or Monotype Arial, respectively. Both of these fonts have set widths
equivalent to Lino Times and Helvetica.

(2) If you set the Distiller to embed ALL fonts and Times and Helvetica
are otherwise installed on your system and included in your PostScript file
that gets distilled, the Distiller does in fact embed those fonts.

        - Dov

At 4/14/99 09:36 AM , Tony Koste wrote:
>...snip
>It turns out Acrobat 4 distiller does not support the font Helvetica because
>of a licensing issue. Not only is Helvetica no longer a font that one would
>never have to embed in a PDF file, users cannot even force Acrobat to embed
>Helvetica. The solution is to not use Helvetica in an original that you
>intend to make into a PDF file. (This is not good news in an organization
>that has chosen Helvetica as it's standard font for its documentation.) The
>new Acrobat reader will still read PDFs that are of documents using
>Helvetica even if the PDF does not have Helvetica imbedded, so apparently
>the reader still stores the same base fonts--Helvetica among them.
>...snip

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Carolyn Stallard wrote:
> 
> Reported lack of support for Helvetica in Acrobat 4.0 is not good
> news.  Helvetica is one of our standard fonts, too.
> --
> Carolyn Stallard
> Documentation Manager
> Coastek, Inc.
>

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