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The Ruby Programming Language |
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re: Horrible font issue in the PDF Version |
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2008-02-29 17:31:37 |
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Allen Noren
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Response to: re: Horrible font issue in the PDF Version
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I sent your latest reply to Keith Fahlgren in our production/tools group. He corrected me regarding my use of "standards" and provided some documentation. Regarding my standards comment, Keith wrote:
"Not "web standards", but "Type1 font embedding in the PDF standard."
In regards to your offer of sending some notification to Apple, Keith wrote:
"Well, that hasn't done anything in the past. I'm tired of this problem, so here's a very cursory review of Preview font embedding problems via Google:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6458458
http://lists.apple.com/archives/quartz-dev/2007/Oct/msg00022.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6523267
Here's my current fave:
http://nmg.livejournal.com/128612.html
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re: Horrible font issue in the PDF Version, March 21 2008
Submitted by
boo
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What has changed in the pdfs recently? I have the same problem with the Shortcuts edition on PyParsing which I bought today, but don't have the problem with the pdf of the Ruby Cookbook, which I bought around the time of its release in mid-2006, nor any of the other pdfs I have bought from O'Reilly (Rails Cookbook, Designing Web Navigation, etc...).
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re: Horrible font issue in the PDF Version, March 25 2008
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Keith Fahlgren
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Based on reader complaints, we've gone back to the font foundry and gotten an OTF version of the problematic constant-width fonts. A new PDF that resolves the Preview-rendering issues has been released and all customers that had previously purchased this PDF should have been notified via email.
