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The issue in this case should not be PDF versus EPS. If a font may be embedded in PDF, it also can be embedded in EPS!

Old traditions die hard. Very old versions of Adobe Illustrator did not provide for embedding fonts in EPS files and as such, if one was creating a "sharable" logo, outlining the text was the only way to produce a self-contained asset. In the general case, since logos tended to be rendered at larger display as opposed to text sizes, the degradation caused by outlining was generally not an issue.

With regards to PDF versus EPS, the issue generally revolves not around what's best for placement in Adobe application documents, but rather, the major problems encountered by users of QuarkXPress when attempting to place PDF. Internally, QuarkXPress converts PDF to EPS with varying levels of "success."

- Dov