16 Jul
2021
16 Jul
'21
4:14 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 01:06:51 +1000
"Steven D'Aprano via tde-users" <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:59:49PM -0700, Gianluca
Interlandi wrote:
Right. PDFs *should* have the fonts embedded in the PDF by default.
Some fonts will never embedded, because they are flagged as "No
Embedding". And I suppose that people should be able to disable font
embedding if they choose. But I stand by my claim that by default PDF
creator software ought to embed fonts.
There's a whole bunch of messy intellectual property problems with
that. Most people don't bother to investigate who their fonts belong
to or what redistribution rights they have, and Windows and Mac OSX
(both the OSs themselves and common software for them) ship with a
lot of "all rights reserved" fonts, some of which may be legacy fonts
without formal "no embedding" markers. So no, embedding fonts by
default unfortunately would make a lot of people criminals, technically
speaking.
E. Liddell
Sounds to
me like the PDF is broken.
PDFs should not depend on the fonts being installed in your system.
I thought this is true only if the fonts are embedded in the PDF. It has
happened to me in the past that a PDF would not render and print correctly
until I had installed the MS TrueType fonts.