Re: Embedding fonts - long

Hi;

My mother once said to me, "If the shoe fits, wear it.". I'm sure many
have heard that one before. In that spirit, I am trying on "smug".
Perhaps. However, that shoe pinches a bit on the heel. I was once called
self-satisfied. That pinched a bit, too.

You obviously came to the newsgroup with high expectations and, as one of
the participants, thank you for that. For my part, I am sorry we failed
to meet them in a more timely, alert manner. In an insufficient
counter-point, allow me to point out that my reply was to Character's
point, not yours. However, it was truly part of the thread you started.
It was intended to bear on the reasons for not allowing embedding of all
fonts. Also, it was intended as a general point and not focused on your
particular situation with regard to fonts used. You correctly point out
that I have no knowledge on that last matter.

You would seem to have considerable experience with Word. Hopefully, you
will return from time-to-time and help us out.


All the best.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User


"John Smith" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:U9pSf.45$rN1.1273@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| 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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