To Subset Fonts or Not?
Friday March 4, 2005
You can make your PDF files smaller by subsetting your fonts, but should you? Font embedding affects not only on file size but also how your PDF can be viewed and edited. Which type of embedding you choose depends on what you want your recipient to be able to do with your file.Should I Subset Fonts When Making a PDF?
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Font subsetting is being used for reports. Don’t know how this is done? However, when Adobe Professional is being used to convert the report .pdf to text (.txt), spacing between characters and some character conversion is being affected (an S in the .pdf report is changed to an E in the .txt report. We are using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional to make the conversion from .pdf to .txt–is Adobe aware that Font subsetting is causing this incorrect conversion? Has anyone experienced these same effects???