Adobe V6 Manual De Usuario

Accessing Font Information

The standard fonts (also known as the Base 14 fonts) are assumed to be present on any machine handling 

PDF or PostScript documents. Those fonts are:

• Courier

• Courier-Bold

• Courier-Oblique

• Courier-BoldOblique

• Helvetica

• Helvetica-Bold

• Helvetica-Oblique

• Helvetica-BoldOblique

• Times-Roman

• Times-Bold

• Times-Italic

• Times-BoldItalic

• Symbol

• ZapfDingbats

It’s important to understand that the Base 14 fonts are not provided in the Adobe PDF Library release; it 

is assumed that you already have them on your system, and that they are available to Adobe PDF Library 

and Adobe Acrobat (or Adobe Reader) applications.

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Font resources must be placed in the Integrated File System (IFS) and referenced by the application via the 

dirList

 pointer within the 

PDFLDataRec

 structure passed to the 

PDFLInit

 function.

The minimum set of resources consists of two Multi-Master fonts (Serif and Sans Serif), Symbol and 

ZapfDingbat fonts. All of these are known by name to the code and must be present in resources.

NOTE:  PDF files that do not have embedded Base 14 fonts will have smaller file 

sizes. However, the Base 14 fonts are the only fonts which may be reliably omitted 

from PDF files. Adobe and Datalogics recommend that applications embed and 

subset all fonts wherever possible. See the accompanying Adobe PDF Reference 

Manual for more information.