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Yup. What Dov says.

Converting type to outlines will affect rasterization on any device, at all sizes. The difference on an imagesetter at regular text sizes is visible to some exceptionally keen-eyed individuals, though not to most people. For large amounts of text, it may also dramatically increase the time required to image the text.

The affects on rasterization are not only the loss of hinting, but the fact that the "fill algorithm" used for fonts is different than that for graphics, causing the letters to be imaged a little heavier, on average.

Personally, if a font doesn't allow embedding, I won't use it. If an output provider requires me to convert to outlines for some other reason, normally I'd find another output provider. But that's me.

Regards,

T

Thomas Phinney
Product Manager
Fonts & Global Typography