[sac-board] Re: SACnews stuff

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:00:34 -0500 , Tejera, Rick wrote:

> [...]
> Second Brian Workman had brought up the question about acrobat keeping all
> formating (fonts etc) when converting documents. I did a little experiment
> and discovered that if you do[n't] embed the fonts in the acrobat document 
> when
> creating it, it will subsutute fonts at the readers end unless the same
> fonts are installed. If the fonts are embedded it will look identical to the
> machine that created it. There is a trade off here and that is file size.
> The issue jsut sent is 897kb with embedded fonts, 537 without. tahts about
> 60% larger. For my money, since this is a relatively small mailing list, I
> [...]

I agree with Brian and AJ, especially since I rarely use Windows thus
making the chances of my having the fonts not very likely.

When, in the future, MS has an upgrade to XP, having the fonts embedded
will keep the PDF files looking like they should.

        -Paul

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