FW: True type font problems

["Giue, Attilio" <ag...@ubspw.com>]

> I have an application that creates a pdf using FOP 0.20.2 that includes a
> Garamond Bold True Type Font.  We are not embedding the font, since we
> know that the font will be available on our platform. Instead, we're using
> the xml file produced by the tools included with FOP.
> 
> The document prints and views correctly when using Acrobat reader 3.01 and
> 5.0. When viewing in Acrobat 4.0, the Garamond Bold font looks much bolder
> than in the other versions, and when printing it, there are some problems
> with the bold characters running into normal weighted characters on the
> same line.
> 
> I've looked around at different newsgroups, and there are some postings on
> Adobe Reader 4.0 having problems with fonts, but it seems in most cases
> these have been fixed by going to 4.05c, which doesn't work for us.
> 
> Has anyone experienced similiar problems, and if so, how did they work
> around them (assuming you can't upgrade to Acrobat 5.0)? We would use
> other fonts, but we have a 1000+ documents that have been created with the
> current font setup that need to be printable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Attilio