Re: st: Re: winmail.dat

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 07:11 AM 2/3/2004 -0500, Christopher F Baum wrote:
> This is the same problem that renders PDFs, despite their name, less than 
> portable: a PDF without embedded fonts will look perfect to the Windows 
> user who created it, and perhaps to another Windows user with a similar 
> set of installed fonts, but all the maths are messed up when viewed on 
> Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, etc. Email clients are the same: the
A tip here: On the Advanced menu of Adobe Acrobat (at least in version 6) 
there is an option for "Use local fonts."  If you turn this off, you'll see 
how your document will look to those who don't have the same fonts you 
do.  There are ways to get fonts embedded as necessary; I don't happen to 
recall how to do it but mine seems to handle it ok.  You might still run 
into trouble if the fonts are not embeddable though.

On a related matter, some of Nick's winmail.dats are getting through to my 
machine; luckily I have one of those email programs (Eudora) that shows it 
as a cutesy icon.

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