Re: Embedding fonts - long

My apologies to the group for my post from my home account. Yes, Gary
Haugen and I are one and the same. I admit that I should have figured out
the problem on my own, however under the pressure of getting an answer for a
few unhappy users, I forgot that I had changed my startup group to test some
new templates and wasn't saving through to the proper normal.dot.

Having said that, I would like to make a few points about my second post.
As some of you note, the answer to the original question was not posted
until after my little rant (I freely admit the two actions were not
connected). So, seeing the then current posts to my question and given the
circumstances described below, I lost it and posted my response to what,
frankly seemed like a lot of unresponsive, smug comments.

Years ago we spent over 6 weeks of time and a considerable amount of money
developing fonts that would give our work product a distinctive look and (in
that day before e-mail being a common place medium of communication), be
intelligible after multiple facsimile transmissions. So, assuming that the
company we worked with was legitimate, copyright issues are unlikely to be
applicable in our case.

Embedding the fonts in a 60 page document typically adds slightly less than
100k to the document's size. In today's world, that is not a prohibitive
overhead. I don't recall having to make a change in normal.dot to embed
fonts in previous editions of Word, although I will concede its been years
since we set our NT system up, which we just replaced with XP, so maybe we
did.

We appreciate the uses of pdf files, and use them extensively. However,
pdfs don't always work well when circulating draft documents. We often need
to simultaneously circulate live, working drafts of documents to many
parties. To facilitate discussion about proposed revisions, we want those
documents to have (as closely as possible) the same appearance in the hands
of each party. For many reasons, we had previously rejected the use of
common system fonts as a resolution to this issue. Further with respect to
pdf files, we often have far more difficulty getting people to work with
annotated pdf files than using Word documents.

In conclusion, I apologize again. I have found that newsgroups are a
valuable resource and never have made a similar post before.






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