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Old 09-02-2009, 05:10 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Abecedary View Post
A cursory look at the guts of the file show that each PDF has about 30 fonts subsetted, which likely explains the relatively large size of each file. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any fonts can be unembedded using Acrobat Pro. I was hoping that if the PDF didn't have any fonts embedded in it that it might try to use the reader's available fonts via the res:///Data/ path (similar to Acrobat's Use System Fonts switch). Of course, had this worked it would then bring up the question of how to get users to install the correct fonts on their readers...But whatever, it didn't work.
Yes, I forgot about it... That's due to the microtype LaTeX package. Text lines are slightly expanded or compressed to make the text/whitespace ratio look more uniform, that's achieved by using expanded or compressed versions of the same font. I could disable this feature, but then the typographic quality wouldn't be so good, and the reason for using PDF wouldn't be so strong

But I don't think that should prevent the Sony reader to open the PDF, this PDF uses the same "trick", and as far as I know opens fine everywhere.
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