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    From Borneq@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 21 00:04:46 2020
    What is a main difference between Postscript and PDF?
    If PDF documents have embeeded fonts or only names, references to
    existing fonts?

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  • From ken@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 21 07:54:12 2020
    In article <5e26320e$0$543$[email protected]>, [email protected] says...

    What is a main difference between Postscript and PDF?

    PostScript is a Turing-complete programming language, PDF is not. PDF is
    a page description language, you cannot write a program using PDF (it
    *does* have some limited programming functionality, cf type 4 PostScript calculator functions)


    If PDF documents have embeeded fonts or only names, references to
    existing fonts?

    A PDF file may contain references to fonts, or complete embedded fonts,
    or a mixture.


    Ken

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  • From ken@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 21 09:24:19 2020
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
    says...

    If PDF documents have embeeded fonts or only names, references to
    existing fonts?

    D'oh pressed send too soon. It can also of course contain embedded
    subset fonts....


    Ken

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  • From Arlen Holder@21:1/5 to ken on Tue Oct 13 17:43:33 2020
    On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:24:19 -0000, ken wrote:

    It can also of course contain embedded
    subset fonts....

    See also the somewhat related topic:
    o How to create PDFs with a 'similar-enough' font embedded if the
    original document's font license does forbid embedding? <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.text.pdf/iaHI8XUiTvw>

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