From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051025130936.C76A.NICK@rout.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435D2EC2.8050105@gmail.com>
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:58:10 -0500
Chris Gottbrath wrote:
> I am not 100% sure but I seem to recall someone telling me that pdfs
> embed any fonts that are used, whereas ps files expect the fonts in
> question to be on the machine that you look at the ps file with. This
> could be a strong argument in favor of pdf files if you are sending the
> files to others.
>
> Does anyone know if that is correct or if I am remembering wrong?
Certainly it is possible to embed all the fonts in a pdf, and this is
often a good idea. It's not always the default though. How you do it
will probably depend which tool/library you are using to produce the
.pdf.
I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-23 8:08 [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use? Zhang Weiwu
2005-10-24 13:33 ` Daniel da Veiga
2005-10-24 13:51 ` John Jolet
2005-10-24 14:22 ` Daniel da Veiga
2005-10-24 14:46 ` John Jolet
2005-10-24 14:50 ` Digby Tarvin
2005-10-24 15:14 ` David Helstroom
2005-10-29 23:42 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-10-24 18:58 ` Chris Gottbrath
2005-10-25 0:10 ` Nick Rout [this message]
2005-10-25 10:57 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2005-10-26 0:36 ` Nick Rout
2005-10-24 20:35 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2005-10-26 19:04 ` Antoine
2005-10-26 19:52 ` Nick Rout
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