[tex-live] TeXworks on Windows versus Linux wrt embedding of Japanese fonts

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Tue Mar 12 02:55:26 CET 2013


On Di, 12 Mär 2013, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> Not embedding all fonts is always a bad idea.  It's a matter of fact
> that documents which don't contain all fonts aren't portable.

Not true for Japanese fonts. Here the font metrics of all the fonts
do agree, so there is no problem with mismatched dimens. 

It is *very* common practice to use non-embedded fonts in Japan,
and the system provides its copy of the two basic fonts.

Norbert

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