[scribus] Core fonts was Re: Smaller file sizes?

[ray]

On Friday 12 September 2008 10:09:14 Joop wrote:
> Peter Nermander schreef:
> > There are some "core" PDF fonts that all PDF readers should support,
> > so if you stick to them you don't need to embed.
>
> Please: a list of these core fonts.
>
> Joop

I Googled for PDF core fonts and found:
http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/pdf2k/03e/merz_fontaquarium.pdf
as the fifth entry.  

PDF Core Fonts (Base 14)
> Core fonts as defined in the PDF reference are guaranteed to be always 
present,
and need not be embedded in the PDF file:
– Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-Oblique, Courier-BoldOblique
– Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-BoldOblique
– Times-Roman, Times-Bold, Times-Italic, Times-BoldItalic
– Symbol
– ZapfDingbats
> The actual appearance may vary from one instance of Helvetica to another
> In Acrobat 4 and above core fonts may be embedded in PDF, and are 
allowed to
override the standard core font metrics (important for prepress)


13
The Core Font Mess
> Alternate names are allowed, and occur (excerpt for Helvetica-Oblique):
– Helvetica-Italic = Helvetica,Italic = Arial-Italic = Arial,Italic, 
Arial-ItalicMT
– Acrobat maps these names accordingly
– PDFWriter is notorious for creating PDF with alternate core font names
     Acrobat versions ship with different core font sets and map these:
     Implications of the modified Acrobat 6 core font set
– Helvetica and Times are no longer available in the Acrobat installation
– text display in these fonts is subject to font availability on the 
system
– should better embed these in order to avoid problems
– CourierStd contains 374 glyphs, many more than in previous versions


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