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Fonts…

It’s funny how when you are writing/developing course material, you realise you’re never 100% certain about the facts 🙂 and I hate writing things down when I’m not 100% sure. So, here I found myself — the Adobe Certified Expert and print specialist — digging back into the archives, looking more in-depth at font embedding […]

PDFs in a time capsule

ISO 19005-1 Document Management – Electronic document file format for long-term preservation, Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1), p. 11 states that font subsetting is permissable as long as "glyph definitions for all characters" are referenced within the file. And — as if file size is important for archival purposes — further notes that […]

What you see is what you print

"What you see is what you print" is a dream come true for print service providers. The Adobe PDF Print Engine gives the prepress industry the ability to take another gigantic step into the automation of prepress. With the Adobe PDF Print Engine, native print hardware can output PDF files containing live transparency. JDF and […]