[reportlab-users] About Helvetica font

[adam hyde]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 09:36 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

> Enrique Comesaña Figueroa wrote:

> > I am trying to generate a PDF document with embedded fonts. I have no

> > problem with other fonts but Helvetica. It always appear in the list

> > of fonts in the properties document even if i do not use it.

> > And if I try to embed it in a document which uses this font, reportlab

> > generates it but do not embed the Helvetica font.

> >

> > Can anyone help me?, If that is not possible, can anyone suggest me

> > any other way to generate pdf  with ALL fonts embedded?

> >   

> 

> That's not supposed to be required.  Every PostScript rasterizer, per

> standard, should be able to understand a small, core set of Type 1

> fonts, including Helvetica.


Print on demand services often require _all_ fonts to be embedded

adam




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