[softwarelist] Re: PostScript and PDF

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:21:10 -0000, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <op.ulnhvgdi7kyep4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> writes
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:09:18 -0000, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
A question for Acrobat users ...
A quick test suggests DirectPS (printed to AcrobatDistiller v4) is not editable. But switch off DirectPS and you get an editable PDF. If this is documented somewhere, then my apologies. 

I hope an Acrobat user can offer some help.
What springs to mind, is fonts, either the type 1 / type 3 setting (in direct PS choices) or font substitution in the printer driver, which ISTR direct PS should obey.
I've played with the type 1/type 3 settings, and it seems to make no difference. I know nothing about PostScript, but looking at the (Direct) PS files in Notepad I see numerous references to the font OP_Times_New_Roman output). If I edit the PS file in Notepad and change all references to OP_Times_New_Roman to Times-Roman (the closest [Adobe] system font), then I can edit the resulting PDF, but of course the Adobe font is noticeably different from the OP font. The PDFs generated from the DirectPS are on average bigger than those generated via Windows. Does this suggest that fonts are not being embedded? On the other hand, if font embedding fails, then Distiller is set to abort PDF creation, which it doesn't do. 
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C.B.
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