Lucida fonts in pdf files (fwd)

[Christina Thiele]

Oops. My reply went only to Sue.

Ch.

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> From cthiele Tue Mar  2 13:31:13 2004
> Subject: Re: [YANDYTEX] Lucida fonts in pdf files
> To: jcm at lms.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:31:13 -0500 (EST)
> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "LMS journals" at Mar 02, 2004 05:19:18 PM
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> LMS journals writes:
> >
> > There's a box to tick in the "job options" for distiller, that subsets all
> > fonts where you're using less than 100% of the characters; I was told to do
> > that when I first started, in order to conform to font copyright
> > requirements, so I now keep it permanently ticked. If you then look at the
> > "font info" for the pdf file in Acrobat, it shows the list of subsetted
> > fonts, (in contrast to the freebee ones like courier, which don't get
> > subsetted).
> >
> > Sue
> >
>
> Wonderful!  So that's how to actually _do_ the bit that's just
> described as `only allow partial font downloading' ... like _that_
> means more than Greek to me!!
>
> Thanks for the specifics, Sue -- along with all the other comments and
> suggestions made by other yandytex readers since I posted that query
> last night.
>
> I'm having to also have a back-up option (I'm figuring Concrete + CM),
> in the event the publisher doesn't want to get involved with actually
> paying for fonts ;-))
>
> This is all new stuff to me, so where I can be soooo `authoritative'
> in my answers to easy stuff like `where's dviwindo.ini' and such, this
> PDF bit is going to show where I've got no clothes on at all ;-)) I'm
> _definitely_ on the trailing edge of all this computer stuff ...
>
> To generate .pdf from dvipsone output, I'd have to have
> (a.k.a. actually buy ;-) ) Acrobat Distiller, right?  I have ps2pdf,
> and so far, that's worked just fine for files produced on the unixbox
> -- files that don't use any commercial fonts. But I'm pretty sure that
> at some point, I'm going to have to progress to the actual Adobe
> product ...
>
> Oh, here's a question. There are also security features for saving
> .pdf files, I've heard (I guess this is one of those things that only
> Distiller would do, and not ps2pdf). Does anyone have comments or
> experience with that part?
>
> Ch.
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