16 Jul
2021
16 Jul
'21
3:06 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:59:49PM -0700, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
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.
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.
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Steve