[softwarelist] Re: PostScript and PDF

David Pilling wrote:
In message <4938E4D0.8030201@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> writes
"The font OP_Times_New_Roman is missing. Affected text will be displayed using a substitute font.
My recollection is support of the font substitution table (but this has to be "hacked" there is no documented method for Windows and so results are not certain) and that I made all names (even substituted fonts) of the form OP_XXX (which is something I could have avoided). My notes say "fonts in printers won't have Unicode glyphs so download if any are used".
I've not observed font substitution today, and it is easy to see font definitions in the PostScript, looks like: 

%%BeginResource: Font OP_Arial
%!FontType1-1.0: OP_Arial
%%Creator: Ovation Pro
12 dict begin
/FontType 1 def
/FontName /OP_Arial def
/FontMatrix [0.001 0 0 0.001 0 0] def
/FontBBox [0 -211 2664 905] def
/Encoding DPL_Latin1Encoding def
I can see the font definitions in the DirectPS output, and I've also determined that the fonts ARE being embedded in the PDF. This is also true of the PDFs made from PS files generated via Windows. So, considering the DirectPS and WindowsPS outputs for the same document ... font embedding in the resulting PDFs shows up (in Acrobat>Document>Properties) as, e.g. 

WindowsPS -> PDF:   TimesNewRoman (Embedded Subset)
                    Type: True Type [or True Type (CID)]
                    Encoding: Ansi [or Identity-H or Roman]

DirectPS -> PDF:    TimesNewRoman (Embedded Subset)
                    Type: Type 1*
                    Encoding: Custom
(* PostScript font, I presume ... red italic "a" adjacent to font description)
So, it looks as tho' Acrobat will allow editing of PDFs using the embedded TT fonts (or substituted fonts resident on the system?), but not the embedded OP fonts. 
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C.B.
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