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PDF/AneedstocontainacolorprofileandtheCMYKcolorprofileisratherbigcom-
paredtoaRGBcolorprofile.Ifoutputsizemattersitisrecommendedtoavoidusing
CMYKcolors.
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Font Creationselection:Thechoicesare:
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Simple fonts when possible (smallest size).Thisisthedefaultoption.
ThisoptionusesSimplefontsincaseswherethefontsdonotusetoomanychar-
acters.Itautomaticallyswitchestousingcompositefontswhenthenumberofchar-
actersbecomestoolargetofitaSimplefont.Thisallowsomittingfontsthatare
considered"standardfonts"inthePDFreference,whichhelpsreducefilesize.
ThedrawbacktothisoptionisthatsomePDFviewersdonotsupportitproperly,
whichcancauseviewingissueswithjobsusingnon-Latin1encodedcharacters.
Note: ASimplefontcanbeaType1font,aTrueTypefontoraType3font.
OneofthemaincharacteristicsofaSimplefontisthatitsglyphsareselected
usingasinglebytecharactercode,limitingthenumberofglyphstoamax-
imumof256.
FormoreinformationonSimplefonts,seeAbode'sdocumentationregarding
PortableDocumentFormatfiles.
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Always create CID fonts (best compatibility).Thisoptionalwaysusescomposite
fonts(CIDfonts),regardlessofthenumberofglyphsinthefont.
CIDfontsuse2byteidstoselectglyphs,sothisoptionalwaysleadstolargerfile
sizes.
Thebenefitofthisoptionisthatallthefontsgetembeddedintheoutput,makingfor
themostportableofPDFoutputs.
CustomersusingAsianfontsshouldgenerallyusetheCIDfontoption.
Note: AnypreConnect2018.2OutputPresetswillusetheSimple Fontsdefault,
unlessupdatedinConnect2018.2orlater.
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Embed standard fonts:Clicktoembedthe14standardsystemfontswithinthePDFout-
put.ThisincreasestheoutputfilesizebutmakesthePDFoutputtrulyportable.SuchPDFs
printasdisplayedonscreen,regardlessofwhetherthe14standardfontsarepresenton
thetargetprintingsystemornot.
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