Do not send fonts to Adobe PDF: select?

[Karen Story]

Hi Mike,
Thank you for your helpful reply. This is indeed a confusing topic. It sounds like there are pros and cons to using this option, and it depends upon exactly what you are trying to do. There is now a pretty good thread on the Adobe Forum, if anyone wants to refer to that:  http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bbfa803/4
Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wickham [mailto:mewickham at compuserve.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:06 AM
To: Frame Users; Karen Story
Subject: Re: Do not send fonts to Adobe PDF: select?

> I'm confused about whether or not I should select the "Do not send 
> fonts to "Adobe PDF"" check box in the Adobe PDF Document Properties > 
> Adobe PDF Settings dialog box.
>

My understanding is that, for creating PDFs, you want to check this box. 
Distiller is capable of finding the fonts installed on your computer without having to pull them from the intermediate PostScript file. Distiller will, of course, automatically embed the fonts in the PDF according to the settings in Distiller. So there is no need to "send the fonts to Adobe PDF." 
Distiller already knows where to look for them.

However, if you plan to send a .PS file to another computer for direct use or processing into PDF, then you should uncheck the box so that the fonts embed in the .PS file and will be sent along with it. It creates a bloated .PS file and takes longer, but sometimes that is necessary.

Mike Wickham