- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:23:19 -0700
- To: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- CC: www-font@w3.org
Dave Crossland wrote: > So when I run Chromium or Firefox, click "Print," and select the "PDF > Printer Driver," I am embedding an unpacked font in a PDF document? That would be my understanding. At that point, printing to a PDF and embedding an unpacked font from a WOFF file is not different from printing a PDF and embedding a locally installed font. > And if the unpacked font says "No Document Embedding!" then Chromium > or Firefox or my PDF Printer Driver should fail to run? No. What should happen is that the PDF is created without the embedded font, using fallback fonts. If the PDF is being created with Acrobat Distiller, the fallback fonts will be the Adobe Serif MM or Adobe Sans MM fonts that exist for this reason. I'm not sure what other party PDF creators do in this respect. It's probably worth pointing out that there are very few fonts whose embedding bits completely disallow embedding. Most commercial fonts have embedding set to 'Print and Preview', and some to 'Editable'. I presume free fonts have the embedding bits set to 'Installable'. JH
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