[OS X TeX] Creating a Sensible PDF Document

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.02.2007 um 18:23 schrieb Philipp Mathey:

> say a system running Linux with xpdf, would I have to choose the  
> option to have all fonts embedded in the document during the  
> configuration phase even though this will create a much larger  
> document ?

How else will you guarantee legibility? "Full embedding" might not be  
the proper term. It should be sufficient to embed all those glyphs  
from a particular font that are really used. Could be all PDF viewers  
can work without the set of 13 "standard PDF" fonts: Times,  
Helvetica, Courier, and Zapf-Dingbats (?), as the PostScript printers  
and emulations can ...

> Is that the only way ?

No. You can build a package including all the fonts that you've used  
in the document – although this might break the one or the other  
licensing agreement.

Actually in times like ours it's wiser not to use -E with xdvipdfmx.  
How can you know whether a receiver of your document will handle the  
fonts issue with common sense?

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   Pete

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