Re: Does Acrobat 6 have font Fonts Rights Management limitations that previous versions of Acrobat did n
Thanks Aandi,
With your response and with Jon Bessant pretty much agreeing with you, when I posted this same question in the Acrobat for Macintosh Forum, I feel I now have the skinny on this new limitation and I believe I don't need to call Adobe Technical Support to verify it.
I'm disappointed that this new limitation is built into the latest revision of Acrobat. Now the ability of Acrobat's cross platform compatibly is reduced if I create a PDF with imbedded Bitstream Mac fonts, I am doubtful that a Windows installation of Acrobat 6.1 will accept a Windows version of the same Bitstream font for editing the same PDF.
Embedding all fonts with no subsets, in an Acrobat PDF, provided a nice way to allow a registered Acrobat user on a different platform to Edit in my font selections without going through the hassle of matching up my font installation on his installed platform and opening up a nightmare of hit and miss attempts to match fonts that Acrobat will accept.
When I share an Acrobat PDF file, with embedded fonts, I'm not distributing fonts to another user for system installation, I am sharing a document that I created with fonts that I own and those fonts are only viable and useful in the shared document and not on the user's installed system.
I understand the need to clamp down on font piracy but I liked Adobe's former liberal philosophy about Embedding Fonts for Editing in Acrobat Version 5. Now my customer's reward for moving up to Acrobat 6 is loosing that ability.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
Robert Scott
Registered user of Acrobat 4, 5, and Acrobat 6 Professional for Mac OS
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:06:50 -0700