Re: Suggestions for 5.0: Margin (and Key)

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 09:35:55 AM pl...@pi... wrote:

> As I understand PS ( which I don't use much ) it relies on the fonts of 
> the host machine at the time it is printed, unless huge font information 
> is embedded in the PS file.
> 
> I suspect this will mean that this kind of careful hand tuning may come 
> unstuck when the PS plot is printed elsewhere than on the machine where 
> the manual optimisation was done.
> 
> If you are printing locally it should work fine.

It's worse than you think.
The font choice in PostScript is made by the printer, not the machine
from which the print command originated.  So the problem can in principle
arise even when you are printing locally.  

In practice this is usually only an issue for non-standard fonts, and you
do still have the option of embedding the font in the document.

	Ethan