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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
you read english only don't you?
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Originally Posted by nyrath
I can also see a need for embedding fonts if you are trying to display mathematical symbols or other non-standard special characters.
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For instance in academic publications. Even if they are in English you will have names of persons and places of every nationality. Not many default fonts will support for instance Icelandic, Turkish, Russian and Polish characters. I work at an accredited academic publishing house, and misprinting the name of a researcher is BAD.
That's primarily why we embed fonts. In some readers the user can choose another font, and that's good. Other readers won't use embedded fonts at all, in that case we haven't really lost anything. All in all I feel that we provide a better product with embedded font, the 4-500 KB added to the file size is negligible for most modern equipment IMHO.
On a side note I wholeheartedly agree with shall1028, unfortunately most reader implementations are still bad. Hopefully in the future we can concentrate on making quality source material, and don't need to wrestle with the Big Companies' sloppy work
