Roland, on your comment about Times, Helvetica and Courier being so prevalent, I'm afraid you are incorrect. Those fonts are/were available in *commercial* UNIX version because the vendors have licensed those fonts to Adobe, those that carry the fonts bought those licenses 16-18 years ago (I'm talking Sun, IBM, HP and all the other vendors HP got by proxy when buying Compaq that bought DEC that devoured the whole UNIX landscape in the mid-90's).
You may argue that they were available in MS Windows and in Mac OS Classic, but that is incorrect as well, because you needed to *buy* a license of Adobe Type Manager or buy a postscript printer that included a copy of said ATM software (MS is not the only software company that plays the OEM tax game). Not even Apple included those fonts in its OS, but rather developed TrueType fonts and created its own versions licensed from the original design owner (Linotype). Microsoft licensed Truetype patents from Apple in a deal very similar to the one with Novell's and hired Monotype to create Truetype versions of their copy- cat designs to be used with Windows. Why? Royalties were very expensive at the time (and still are). Free (as in freedom) operating systems never had access to quality fonts that could replace the LaserWriter 35 until URW++ relicensed their copy- cat fonts under the GPL2 with the non-viral PDF embedding exception. And those fonts easily available to MS-Windows users because they don't include the needed metrics files and besides that have serious naming bugs that make them break under Windows and are worked around in POSIX systems just due to the flexible configuration facilities available. It is true that Adobe Acrobat did include Times, Helvetica (normal width designs only), Courier and Symbol from version 1 to 4, but version 4 was already obsolete 5 years ago... Soooo, the only way you can make sure the PDF files you create are *portable* is embedding the fonts. -- openoffice.org2 creates pdf and ps files much bigger than oo1.1.3 https://launchpad.net/bugs/23573 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
