[reportlab-users] Disable TTF Embedding

[Tim Roberts]

Bill Freeman wrote:

> 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.


The beauty of PDF files is that you don't need an exact version match to
read a file.  I shouldn't need a new reader to read a new PDF.  If I
have Acrobat Reader 5 on Windows 98, it won't be able to display those
files.

Plus, those fonts are licensed, and Adobe and Microsoft haven't been on
the friendliest of terms.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.