[reportlab-users] Disable TTF Embedding

[Bill Freeman]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> Yoann Roman wrote:

>   

>> I looked into Acrobat 9's default settings, and it *does* embed subsets 

>> of all fonts except for Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Century 

>> Gothic, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Lucida Console, Tahoma, Times New 

>> Roman, Trebuchet, and Verdana. It has all those on a "never embed" list 

>> for its "Standard" profile.

>>   

>>     

>

> That's fascinating, because it means those PDFs cannot be viewed on

> Windows 2000 or Windows 98 without Microsoft Office.  That's an

> incredibly bone-headed decision on their part.

>

>   

Unless the acrobat reader they're offering for those products is 
packaged with those fonts.