Re: [libreoffice-users] LO4.2 pdf export embeds all fonts...

On 02/25/2014 02:19 PM, r_ouellette wrote:
> I've always considered LO (and prior OOo) does an excellent job in pdf
> conversion. My pdf files where compact and efficient as I always did these
> font substitutions to use the 35 Adobe font:
>
> closely related font (Times NewRoman, Liberation Serif) > Times
> closely related font (Arial, Liberation Sans) > Helvetica
> closely related font (Courier New, Liberation Mono) > Courier
>
> By doing so, the substituted fonts ARE NOT embedded in the pdf file and the
> pdf reader uses the always included Adobe fonts to render the pdf file. The
> result was perfect!
>
> Was? Yes, now LO4.2 seems to ALWAYS embed all fonts, even if I don't want
> this behavior. I would prefer to have an option not to embed all fonts to
> revert to the pre 4.2 behavior. Maybe this option is possible in the
> advanced settings, but I didn't find it.
>
> Raymond

You could always use an external PDF file creator.  I have CUPS-PDF 
installed on all my Ubuntu systems as the default printer.  On Windows 
systems, I use doPDF as their default printers.

Personally, I like embedding fonts, so they will read the file exactly 
as you have it formatted.  Sure, font substitution is an option.  Yes, 
Adobe has some good fonts.  But do we have to use them "most of the 
time" as the "default" fonts that are displayed?  If I use a Caslon 
font, DejaVu font, Galliard, Garamond, Liberation, Libertine, 
OpenDyslexic, Open Sans, or any number of hand writing and script fonts, 
I expect to have the reader of the PDF file see these used fonts in the 
document.  I choose my fonts for the documents and format it to those 
fonts.  I would not like to see what font substitution would do for some 
of the fonts I use.

Yes, LO should give you the option on embedding or not.  But, if the 
font is not embedded you cannot "complain" about any formatting issues 
that come up.  I have seen a lot of documents, sent to me, that did not 
have embedded fonts and their pages were a mess and had to be reedited 
to make it look good with the fonts I had that were close to what the 
document used in its creation and not installed on my system.




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