Adobe PDF vs. Microsoft XPS

“I’ve checked printing to PostScript from Word 2007 on Windows Vista and can confirm that the resulting PostScript contains the Type 1 font information for the Type 1 font referenced in Word—i.e. the font glyphs have not been rasterized,” testified Ford.

In the case of creating a PDF from the 2007 Microsoft Office System (aka Office 2007) using the Microsoft add-in, Ford suggested the following: “When saving a Word document that contains a Type 1 font as a PDF using the add-in, the resulting PDF usually contains the original font information, i.e., the font glyphs are not rasterized.