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Re: Do fonts have to be embedded in aWCAG2.0conformingPDFdocument?

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Apr 16, 2015 2:55AM

Hi Andrew,

On 16 Apr 2015, at 03:29, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I agree that these are problems, but these affect all sighted users of the documents. I think that we would probably agree that a file that comes out like this (http://www.mhsonline9.rajasthan.gov.in/Documents/Vigayapti.pdf) is not readable to anyone without regard to disability

this file is a different story because it is broken - the way characters are encoded is completely wrong, as it uses a font with an undefined encoding. In this case nobody can read the information.

We need to distinguish between 'just wrong' and 'font not embedded/decreased likelihood of decent rendering'.


Olaf