[wellylug] TradeMe Linux jobs
Cliff Pratt
enkidu at cliffp.com
Sun Jun 29 19:42:38 NZST 2008
Atom Smasher wrote:
>
> if there's one thing that PDF excels at (if it's properly prepared),
> it's making sure that *everyone* sees the same fonts, formatting,
> images, etc,
>
Well that a) not true and b) not a good thing either.
There's no way of making a document look the same on varied machines
running varied OSes and varied apps. Even if you embed all the various
esoteric fonts that you are impelled to use, which bloats the size of
the PDF, they will still look different.
Trying to restrict the user to just those fonts and exactly the layout
that you designed into it is, IMO, arrogant and inflexible.
Cheers,
Cliff
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