RE: On PDFs

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Burns [mailto:bburns -at- qds-solutions -dot- com]

> >Both of these functions can fail for a variety of reasons. 
> In some cases documents are 
> >created with fonts that are not encoded properly and cannot 
> be searched. 
> 
> There are also font subsets, which create the same problem. 
> If you embed only a subset of fonts, you often get some 
> interesting results, especially if you cut and paste text or 
> attempt to export it.

Yes, and this conflicts with the demand to minimize the 
file sizes.  I have had our own people demand that I 
"lower the quality of the screen-caps and illustrations" 
in order to shrink the PDF size, while simultaneously 
complaining that "Figure X is fuzzy; can't you sharpen 
it up?"  So I just produce whatever quality of illustration 
or cap that's available, and I embed full fonts and say 
to heck with "ye of little pipe".  After all, the docs come 
on the CD. 

/kevin

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