I have a developer group creating PDFs via 5.8.8/PDF/Reuse.pm using "\'Times-Roman\'". No errors during generation, but when they open the PDF in Acrobat Reader in Windows, the "actual" Font used is TimesNewRomanPSMT and their formatting is thrown off.

This is, of course, a systems problem. :\

My perlfu is insufficient to support them in embedding the Times-Roman font in the PDF so that the missing font is not supplanted by something that someone else has decided is "close enough" because it's in the same font family.

AFAICT, the Times-Roman font is being supplied by:
PDF::API2::CoreFont::timesroman
and not actually installed on the system otherwise (Solaris 10/Sparc).

Can that CoreFont be embedded? Do I need to locate and actual timesroman.ttf?

Any insights are much appreciated.

In reply to 5.8.8/PDF/Reuse.pm & Times-Roman versus Times New Roman by robert.campbell

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