Angus Leeming wrote: > http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm > explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A > standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these > fonts even if they are not embedded in the document.
OK so does that mean those fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier and variants) are built into the reader, or that it just expects them to be available? For example on Windows machines they generally have Times New Roman and Arial TrueType fonts rather than Times and Helvetica. Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it silently substitute the font (possibly causing slight differences in the output?) Is it best for maximum portability to somehow force even standard fonts to be embedded in PDFs? This is assuming a fairly large document where the extra space taken by an embedded font wouldn't be significant. Paul.
