This can create havoc when the OS typeface and the embedded typeface are from different foundries.

This also opens PDFs created with Preview to what I consider to be a bug in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.Adobe has made it so that when a PDF has an entire typeface embedded in it _and_ a typeface of the same name is available through the OS, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader will use the typeface provided by the OS. This means that the minimum size of a PDF created by Preview can vary wildly, depending of the number of different typefaces used in the source document. I do not know what it does to do so, though.)Īs far as I can tell, Preview embeds the entire character set of all typefaces used in the source document. (BTW, 'optimize' is an option in Acrobat to create smaller files. So even though Frame can create native PDFs, we get better results by printing to PS and then using Distiller to create the PDF, or even by using Frame to generate the PDF and then 'optimizing' it in Distiller or Exchange. I dunno what they're taking on the 4-color-glossy side of the house.We've noticed, though, as Nick M pointed out, that Distiller gives much smaller PDFs than (say) Framemaker. I agree it's a reduced market, but isn't a large part of that reduced market Apple's core base of graphics folks? Maybe the PDF generation from AI and Photoshop is better than it used to be, or maybe PDF hasn't made the inroads at service bureaus I thought it had.I work in publishing (although I'm on the written content side, not the art side), and our vendor now prefer PDFs to PS however, we are not doing anything fancy, just black and white. Many people who would have purchased Distiller will be content with the functionality built into OS X, leaving Adobe with only the small market of people who require the advanced features of Distiller. Quote:Originally posted by Neil999: The market for an OS X version of Distiller is greatly reduced by OS X's ability to create (albeit crude) PDFs.

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