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

krackedpress wrote
> On 03/24/2014 12:25 PM, Pedro wrote:
> > Owen Genat wrote
> > > The 14 standard PostScript fonts are now (under v4.2+) always embedded,
> > > as
> > > required by PDF v1.5. I provide some detail here:
> > >
> > > http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/30069/pdf-font-embedding-in-libreoffice-42/?answer=30071#post-id-30071
> > >
> > > This may be contributing to the observed behaviour, although to what
> > > degree this change affects font substitution, I am uncertain.
> > That would be acceptable if the file was exported as PDF 1.5 but since it
> > is
> > exported as PDF 1.4 the change doesn't make any sense.
>
> I Embed fonts all the time for viewing to other systems. ... I use a lot
> of specialty fonts, like that, in some of my work. They are needed to be
> embedded into the files, PDF or otherwise, so the people who get them can
> see the text with the "proper" formatting and fonts. ... I do not know
> about the "14 standard Postscript fonts", since I do not 
> know what those fonts are 

These are two completely different options (as I indicate in the AskLO
thread I linked). The 14 fonts relate to the PDF standard (even v1.4,
although the reference in the change is to v1.5) and include:

> ... four faces each of three Latin text typefaces (Courier, Helvetica*,
> and Times*), as well as two symbolic fonts (Symbol and ITC Zapf
> Dingbats®).

The option under File > Properties... > Font tab is for user-specified font
embedding. 
Best wishes, Owen.



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