Yes, I usually do just that, but then again, I do, on occasion, miss one. I have been working on some maps using ArcGIS 9 for the design and layout and producing them as PDF files for easy transport. It is super since ArcGIS has a built-in facility to export to PDF without having to have the full blown Adobe Acrobat product (not in my budget at the moment).
A funny thing was happening - the maps and their PDF exports looked fine on my laptop, but when I emailed them off to Mary to print at her office, the map had a perfectly formed
2 - yes, the number 2 in the upper right hand corner of every single one. A real mystery. She even brought the prints home (not that I didn't trust her) and there it was on every single one.
I thought I had tried everything, including deleting out elements on the map. The errant number was still on every one. I redesigned one of the maps - letter size to legal size to make some of the detail information more legible - and the number 2, while still there, had
moved to the lower right corner, exactly where I had moved the compass rose to on the map. I hd never deleted the compass rose in tests since I wanted to have a valid cartographic product (thanks Dottie and Gary for pounding that one in my head). And then I remembered that ESRI, in their great wisdom had made the cartographic symbology into fonts, making map file sizes smaller to store. The only difference between my laptop at home and Mary's workstation in the office was the ESRI symbol fonts.
The fix was simple, one that is actually in the export dialog (shown below). Simply click the box and the fonts are embedded in the resulting PDF file. It does make the file larger, but it is finally correct!
