Carlos E. R. wrote:
The thing is that the printer font "Times" should not be embedded, because that's one of the four fonts that the reader has implemented internally. And it wasn't in suse 10.1.
That's what the ps2pdf converter does: the font "Times New Roman" is embedded, but "Times" is not. And there is no degradation of the final result, all compliant PDF readers will render that font correctly: that's the standard. If the user wants an exact result, we will use another font. Otherwise, give use the choice!
FWIW, the current "best practice" in PDF generation is to also embed (subsets of) the 14 standard fonts. Or, as the PDF specs says several times (on p.411-416 for PDF 1.7): Note: Beginning with PDF 1.5, the special treatment given to the standard 14 fonts is deprecated. All fonts used in a PDF document should be represented using a complete font descriptor. For backwards capability, viewer applications must still provide the special treatment identified for the standard 14 fonts. "Best practice" is not only to include font descriptors, but also the font programs. Acrobat Distiller does it (there is a special profile ``smallest file size'' to not embed them), pdfTeX or dvips in their default configuration do it, and most other publishing systems do this as well. Thus I doubt that OOo will change the default. You're right that it should give you the choice, though. Just my 0.02 EUR, from an OOo outsider. (I belong to the TeX developer community.) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org