-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-04-21 at 06:28 -0400, Charles philip Chan wrote:
"Carlos E. R." <> writes:
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.
Not 4, but 14[1]:
Ah, I'm saving this list ;-) I think they are still 4 fonts, with the bold and italic variations. Let's check:
,----[ Base 14 Fonts ] | 1. Times-Roman | 2. Times-Italic | 3. Times-Bold | 4. Times-BoldItalic
That's "Times"
| 5. Helvetica | 6. Helvetica-Oblique | 7. Helvetica-Bold | 8. Helvetica-BoldOblique
That's "Helvetica".
| 9. Courier | 10. Courier-Oblique | 11. Courier-Bold | 12. Courier-BoldOblique
That's "Courier". We have three fonts.
| 13. Symbol | 14. ZapfDingbats
Ah... the #14 I didn't know. So, that's 3 fonts with their variations, and two more.
These are the fonts that are guaranteed to come with every Postscript printer originally are in the postscript specs. The are mapped to a set of cloned fonts (donated by URW) by Ghostscript for printing.
Ah! The URW fonts.
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!
I agreed that if one of these 14 fonts are used they should not be embedded. For all other fonts the subset used should be embedded.
Exactly. This is what I reported in Bugzilla 260193 a year ago and has not been corrected yet. Do you know if there is someway to remove the embedded font from a pdf file and map the font?
Footnotes: [1] Please refer to section 7.6.2 of the PDF specs.
Which I don't have, but I read once. So I'm saving your list above ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDIPttTMYHG2NR9URAh6RAJ0fSAh7P+1FM6RSU3zT6BBSMPofZwCeLjX0 0ccnz1jjYdeodulur6Ie3ss= =yABU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org