[reportlab-users] Disable TTF Embedding

[Yoann Roman]

Tim Roberts wrote...

> 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.


It looks like the only problematic ones are Arial Narrow (all), Century 
Gothic (2000/XP), Georgia (98), and Trebuchet (98). All other fonts are, 
according to Adobe, installed by default on Windows 98/2000/XP. Of 
course, this says nothing of Mac compatibility.

Acrobat's "High Quality Print" and "Press" settings clear this "never 
embed" font list so that everything is included. I can't find any 
official Adobe reasoning, so my guess is they accepted the possible 
compatibility issues for smaller file sizes by default.

As for doing this with ReportLab, it turned out to be a fairly easy 
patch. I'll send it along for review under a tagged subject per Andy's 
recommendation.

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Yoann Roman