RE: RE: Using fonts not in CoreFont list

 
You are preaching to the choir Shawn.  Our PDFs always just use Helvetica...
But in this instance we have a client willing to pay for a special PDF that
uses a different font and of course branding elements and other things...
But when the "marketing folks" get involved the look and feel and the fonts
and even the font sizes become a big deal "to them".  So we were just trying
to accommidate.  We will just try it and see...  


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Corey
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [perl-text-pdf-modules] RE: Using fonts not in CoreFont list

Tim Turner wrote:
> It is a TTF font... But we are working in UNIX. I have the font file 
> on my Windows machine. I don't think it will work to simply put the 
> font file from windows right into unix will it??? Or do I have to find 
> a unix version of that file?

All I can say is TITS (Try It To See). Try transferring the font as binary
and see if it works.

Most of my PDFs come from databases. Because of this, I strive for
readability rather than pretty. Since almost anything can come back from a
database, I tend to use the core fonts.

If you are not using the core fonts, you should consider:

1. Does everyone who would read this PDF have the font on their machine?

2. If not, can I legally embed the font in the PDF?

Otherwise, stick to the core fonts.

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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing
them."
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