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Adrian,

You've pretty much got the gist of it.

The printer driver has a setting that you can toggle to Send or Do Not
Send fonts to the "printer" (the ps file in the Distiller printer
instance case). This results in references to the font names instead
of the actual fonts being embedded in the file. Further, the printer
driver *always* dynamically subsets all fonts embedded in the output
when you have the Send to printer enabled.

If you have the font references in the ps file, then Distiller 4 could
find and insert them for Type 1 fonts (SOL for referenced TTs), while
Distiller 5 can insert both types (and OTF too, I think), provided the
font locations were specified in the Distiller Font locations setting
(Distiller doesn't talk to the system or ATM as to where fonts are
located - you must explicitly Distiller where they are). However, TTs
are always subset, while Type 1s can be completely embedded (this may
affect some direct PDF editing later in the workflow if you ever have
to do this).