On 2021-07-16 11:14:26 E. Liddell wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 01:06:51 +1000
>
> "Steven D'Aprano via tde-users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:59:49PM -0700, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
> > > >Sounds to me like the PDF is broken.
> > > >
> > > >PDFs should not depend on the fonts being installed in your system.
> > >
> > > I thought this is true only if the fonts are embedded in the PDF. It
> > > has happened to me in the past that a PDF would not render and print
> > > correctly until I had installed the MS TrueType fonts.
> >
> > Right. PDFs *should* have the fonts embedded in the PDF by default.
> >
> > Some fonts will never embedded, because they are flagged as "No
> > Embedding". And I suppose that people should be able to disable font
> > embedding if they choose. But I stand by my claim that by default PDF
> > creator software ought to embed fonts.
>
> There's a whole bunch of messy intellectual property problems with
> that. Most people don't bother to investigate who their fonts belong
> to or what redistribution rights they have, and Windows and Mac OSX
> (both the OSs themselves and common software for them) ship with a
> lot of "all rights reserved" fonts, some of which may be legacy fonts
> without formal "no embedding" markers. So no, embedding fonts by
> default unfortunately would make a lot of people criminals, technically
> speaking.
>
> E. Liddell
Embedded fonts also can inflate the size of a PDF file significantly, so most PDFs do not
embed.
Leslie
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