[Desktop_printing] Question for PDFA
McDonald, Ira
imcdonald at sharplabs.com
Thu Jan 12 10:14:16 PST 2006
Hi,
My apologies for spreading confusion about treatment of
embedded fonts in PDF/A and PDF/is.
Yes - PDF/A requires embedded fonts - my foolish mistake -
and PDF/A became ISO 19005-1 in September 2005.
The best source for info on PDF/A is this AIIM page:
http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=25013
The actual text of ISO DIS (Draft Int'l Std) 19005-1
is available in PDF at:
http://www.archivists.org.au/pubs/ISO_DIS_19005-1.pdf
PDF/is _allows_ embedded fonts, but also requires that all
text be invisible (so that the text can be cut-and-pasted,
but the embedded fonts are _not_ necessary to render the
PDF document).
The PWG Candidate Standard PDF/is is this directory:
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/
in the file:
cs-ifxpdfis10-20040315-5102.3.pdf
Cheers,
- Ira
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: desktop_printing-bounces at lists.osdl.org
> [mailto:desktop_printing-bounces at lists.osdl.org]On Behalf Of
> Ralph Giles
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:06 PM
> To: Michael Sweet
> Cc: desktop_printing at osdl.org
> Subject: Re: [Desktop_printing] Question for PDFA
>
>
> 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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