RE: Warm and Fuzzy Documentation

Subject: RE: Warm and Fuzzy Documentation
From: Beth Friedman <bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:19:54 -0500

In our previous episode at 09:54 AM 6/29/01, Jane Carnall wrote:

Anne Robotti wrote:
Right but Scott, would this do the job anyway? Even if the client
purchased the fonts, wouldn't all the customers have to purchase
the fonts, if the docs are to be delivered in Windows?

Basically, if the client wants to control the fonts in which their documents
appear, this constrains the client to PDF with embedded fonts. This means,
in turn, that the client needs to consider all the issues involved in
providing *only* PDF files for the end-user. (Didn't we just have this
discussion?)

If the client doesn't care if the documents are editable, you can embed TrueType fonts into Word documents. The catch is that you can't save documents reliably with the embedded fonts once you've edited them. But if I have TrueType Scala, say, I can embed that in the document, and the person who gets the document (who doesn't have Scala on his system) should be able to view and print the document correctly.

Of course, if the client doesn't care if the documents are editable, PDF is probably a better way to go.

--
Beth Friedman / bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
"I don't think editors are any crueller than the general populace, they just have more opportunity."
--Pamela Dean


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References:
Re: Warm and Fuzzy Documentation: From: Anne . Robotti
RE: Warm and Fuzzy Documentation: From: Jane Carnall

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