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Book:   The Ruby Programming Language
Subject:   re: Horrible font issue in the PDF Version
Date:   2008-02-29 17:31:37
From:   Allen Noren
Response to: re: Horrible font issue in the PDF Version

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
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    Submitted by boo   [Respond | View]

    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...).




    • Keith Fahlgren photo re: Horrible font issue in the PDF Version,  March 25 2008
      Submitted by Keith Fahlgren | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger   [Respond | View]

      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.