Re: Ms. problem

Paul Bennett said:
>
> From: Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
>
>> 2. If I were to put this on-line, I suspect a .pdf format
>> would be best; my computer can't create one, so I assume
>> I'll have to buy something from adobe :-(((
>
> There is a PDF printer driver for Windows that is free.
> Basically, it looks to your Windows applications as if
> it's a printer, but it actually outputs a PDF file to your
> hard disk instead. Damned if I can remember the name of it,
> but it does exist.
A friend of mine uses one called "Ghost Writer".


>> Also, I seem to recall from past discussion that
>> publishing things on the web precludes later print-
>> publication. Is that correct,
>
> Somewhat. Publishing photos on the web requires a much
> lower resolution than printing photos out, and that
> can screw people up.
>
>> and does it apply to pdf's?
>
> It can, but it needn't. If you "print" the PDF at (say)
> 600dpi, it will be suitable for both soft and hard copy.
I got the impression Roger was asking more about publishing
rights. I can't see any reason that it couldn't be paper-
published if you've already published it on the web. You
still retain a copyright to it. I suppose a commercial
publisher might not be interested if it's already been
available on the web.


>> 3. There is also the question of which font to use.
>> The only special character not available in Times
>> New Roman is glottal stop; I can insert one from
>> Thryomanes or (ugh) Lucida Sans Unicode, but would
>> that show up properly in a pdf if the user didn't
>> have that font?
>
> Certainly with Adobe Acrobat, you can set it up to
> include special characters as graphics (i.e. you can
> say "include text in fonts X, Y, and Z just by
> specifying the font name, but include text in fonts
> I, J and K by outputting the graphics for them"). I
> suspect that the PDF printer mentioned above could
> do it, too. As a last resort, you can check the
> "print text as graphics" option on the Printer Setup
> dialog. You'll make a bigger PDF, but PDF includes
> some fairly good compression to cope with that.
I thought the whole idea with making PDFs was that
they encoded the source fonts, so the end reader didn't
need to have those fonts installed. If you have those
characters in the fonts you use to create the PDF, I
would expect them to show up correctly in the end
document.

--Ph. D.

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