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Topic: Re: Unicode Font embedding with Acrobat 7 (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Mac Issues, Msg: 143748
From: LeonardR
Date: 12/11/2005 09:15 AM
At 12:06 PM 12/10/2005, p-pdf-mac-issues Listmanager wrote:
>In creating a book-size PDF from Word 2004 with Acrobat 7, I got
>dozens of subsetted copies of each font.
Yes, that's quite possible. There is also nothing wrong
with it (other than enlarged file size). It's due to the Mac OS X
printing model vs. that of Mac OS 9/Classic - not Adobe's doing.
>OS X's PDF creation tools don't embed dozens of copies,
Yes they do! One per page. For the exact same reasons...
>I think it has to do with Word 2004 switching to Unicode. It looks
>to me as if Distiller on the Mac was never updated to properly handle Unicode.
Distiller has been handling Unicode since version 4.
Leonard
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