Adobe Reader not WYSIWYG

[Peter Eis]

Christoph Bier wrote:

>Peter Eis schrieb am 31.10.2005 18:43:
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>>>On Mon, October 31, 2005 7:53 am, Christoph Bier said:
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>>>>It's not a matter of the viewer program but of the PDF. The fonts
>>>>must be embedded in the PDF. The program that produces the PDF has
>>>>to be configured accordingly. Nowadays all PDF producing programs
>>>>should be configured that way.
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>>That is correct but as this is an option which has to be configured most
>>of the times some fonts won't be embedded.
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>Sorry, I don't understand this sentence. For example pdfTeX
>configured once that way will always embed the fonts. But I guess I
>misunderstood you.
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You are absolutely right that once you have configured the application
you are using to create pdf the fonts they will be embedded.
But usually people just don't bother to configure their application.
Just check out some public available documents for example
(apache-refcard-a4.pdf, cvs-refcard-a4.pdf or mysql_manual.pdf). Some
fonts are embedded, some are partially embedded and some fonts are missing.
Even if all fonts are included there could be problems displaying or
printing the pdf (at least in acrobat there has been a problem with
embedded windows true type fonts).

Regards,
Peter