Re: ACM Ada Letters

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote:
: 
: I'm not clear that PDF would solve the problem of the printer having a
: different character set. It would be interesting to find out.

It should sove the problem, because you can and should store fonts with
encodings in PDF files.  However, OpenOffice's PDF generator seems
not yet troublefree, unfortunately. Ventura 10 does produce good PDF,
in various flavours, for Web, printing, ..., not using either of
Windows' or Adobe's drivers, afaikt.

If you have Adobe's Distiller, you can control which fonts will
be stored in the PDF file, subsetted or not. (Subsetting is a font
licensing issue.)
pdfTeX, xmltex, RenderX's XEP, ... are good PDF generators, too.
FOP is not bad.
Lout has an option to produce PDF instead of PostScript files.

The printing industry seems to have establish a set of rules for
using PDF in print, named PDF/X.