
Host-Installed, Printer-Resident, and Embedded Fonts
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Some fonts, however, include information about the vendor’s desired embedding behav-
ior. e ‘OS/2’ table, specically the fsType eld, species the embedding levels of Open-
Type and TrueType fonts.
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Table 6-53 lists common OS/2.fsType values.
Common OS/2.fsType values—embedding levelsTable 6-53.
Value Meaning
0 Installable Embedding—this is the most liberal level of embedding
2 Restricted License Embedding—no embedding is permitted
4 Preview and Print Embedding—this is the minimum level of embedding
8 Editable Embedding
Back to Acrobat and PDF, as long as all of the fonts that are used are not set to Restrict-
ed License Embedding, everything that is needed to print a document—meaning the
fonts, graphics, and other page elements—can be encapsulated into a PDF le. is PDF
le subsequently serves as a complete, robust, and reliable digital representation of the
document.
Cross-Platform Issues
For purely historical reasons, seven of Adobe Systems’ PostScript Japanese fonts have dif-
ferent menu names (that is, the localized font name that appears in applications’ font
menus) between Mac OS and Windows, as far as OCF fonts are concerned. Table 6-54
illustrates these dierences (note that the presence or absence of a “space” is sometimes
the only dierence).
Developers who plan to support PostScript Japanese fonts ...