[Desktop_printing] Question for PDFA

Ralph Giles giles at ghostscript.com
Wed Jan 11 14:05:38 PST 2006


On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:46:37PM -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:

> (It would be nice if PDF/A *does* require embedded fonts - in that
> case, we should use that variant as the standard format...)

I've not read the spec, but considering the "A" stands for archive,
requiring embedded fonts (does this include the standard postscript 
14?) seems more likely. It also makes it a subset of full PDF instead 
of a variant.

 -r



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