[reportlab-users] embedding standard fonts

Jarek Zgoda reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:52:04 +0200


Dnia Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:00:22AM +0100, Andy Robinson pisze:

>> is there a way to embed the standard fonts into the pdf? The pdf i'm
>> creating needs to embed all it's fonts.
>> 
>
>Why would it need to embed things like Helvetica, which is
>present in every Acrobat Reader in the world?

Only basic encodings are built-in (ASCII, WinANSI and MAC-Roman). 
That means that less than 1/8 of the world's population can use it.

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