Re: Print to PDF from AppleWorks 5.1? - Yes, Virginia

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Michael,

Thanks for the compliment.

The pcl - pdf engine embeds font subsets so that the reader need not have
the original fonts installed.

In the case of the proportional Times-Roman font that the AppleWorks PCL
driver uses, the default substitute font is URW's "NimbusRomanNo4-Lig",
although when the engine is actually built, other fonts (including
originals) can be substituted.

The engine uses the substitute fonts 'just in case' someone were to create a
pdf without having 'embedding' privileges for the fonts they are using. As
you know, most of us have bucket loads of fonts these days, and just about
everything I own allows embedding into a .pdf. YMMV.

In fact, the default fonts selected by the engine for the Monospaced fonts
the AppleWorks PCL Driver uses (generally Courier and Letter Gothic) were
wholly unsatisfactory, so when I built the engine, I used the real McCoys.

Most printing (but not all) printing from AppleWorks is done with monospaced
fonts, so I felt those were the most important.

Anyway, I didn't really notice the "hflk" issue you mentioned with my (2)
readers, Acrobat 8 (Mac) and Apple Preview.  Could I trouble you to get back
to me with a specific page number so that I can take a better look?

One more thing -- do you notice the same thing when the particular page is
printed?

Thanks.




Hugh Hood




in article F7qdnZPvZ4xZBZLQnZ2dnUVZ5jednZ2d@giganews.com, Michael J. Mahon
at mjmahon@aol.com wrote on 12/20/10 11:56 AM:


> 
> The .pdf is beautiful--this will make a very nice utility!
> 
> One thing I noticed that is funny...the Times Roman font seems to
> be mixed point size.  The lower-case letters "hflk" and "tuvwxyz"
> (and probably more I didn't check) are larger than the rest, and
> (at least) the digit 6 is smaller than other digits.
> 
> Is this font embedded, or is this a rendering issue for Adobe Reader
> on my machine?  Perhaps the point size is some fractional value??
> 
> -michael
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