2007 fonts readable in PDF by non-office holders?

[idiotprogrammer]

Hi, there, I'm producing a user manual in Office 2007 using the Office
2007 fonts (Constantia, etc). I downloaded Microsoft's Save as PDF
plugin.

I was wondering. If I send the pdf to our clients (who do not have
Office 2007), will they be able to view it properly? The only thing I
can assume is that they have Adobe Acrobat, perhaps not even that
(it's a guide to installing something on Unix).

If it doesn't, what would be a good safe font to use?

Thanks for your help.


Robert Nagle
Houston, Texas
http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/

 

[Bob I]

Adobe reader and use simple fonts.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Use Times New Roman to be on the safe side.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi, there, I'm producing a user manual in Office 2007 using the Office
2007 fonts (Constantia, etc). I downloaded Microsoft's Save as PDF
plugin.

I was wondering. If I send the pdf to our clients (who do not have
Office 2007), will they be able to view it properly? The only thing I
can assume is that they have Adobe Acrobat, perhaps not even that
(it's a guide to installing something on Unix).

You should be ok using the Office 2007-supplied fonts. They're embeddable, and
the PDF add-in embeds them (in my tests in PPT, at least).

If you want to be certain, create a PDF, open it in Acrobat or Reader check
Document Properties, Fonts to verify that the fonts are embedded.