[sac-board] Re: Newsletter issues

Brian, 

You're right when you say the purpose of .pdf format is to be indepentet of
like fonts, bu8t I imagine like everything else in the world, you can't have
everything. In being able to use ANY application to create a document and
then send it to someone else without that application and have them be able
to read it, Acrobat succeeds just fine. I suupose Abode settled for minor
thing like fonts subtitution to keep costs down to a somewhat reasonable
rate. You'd have to check with Adobe on that. I do remeber Tom Polakis
telling me when we were testing Acrobat, that EVAC had similar problems, so
it looks like it is just a quirk of the program. 

Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona


-----Original Message-----
From: Workman, Brian (AZ76) [mailto:brian.workman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:57 AM
To: 'sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [sac-board] Re: Newsletter issues



I can't open the new newsletter either. I always could before.

I 
> believe this to be
> due to font substitution. If you don't have the same fonts 
> the newsletter
> was crated with, it will try to substitute the closest thing 
> it has, not
> always with good results. I had sent the fonts out with the 
> August issue, if
> you installed them it should cure the problem, If not, I am 
> going to ask Bob
> Erdman to post them on the web site to be available for 
> download. This'll be
> easier on me than sending them individually to everyone who 
> needs them. 

I could be wrong, but I thought the whole idea behind the genesis of the
.pdf format was to do away with external dependencies on things like loaded
fonts etc. It is my understanding that a .pdf file should look the same on
any computer of any platform and that all font information was included in
the file itself to insure that this was so. 

BJW

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