I don't think it's widely used in Word/PowerPoint etc. because it's not widely known. Also I see it's just not supported in the Mac version of PowerPoint, which is a bit of a shocker.
Given the size of modern disks, and even Internet speeds for e-mail attachments, if I were Microsoft I'd be tempted to turn it on by default, with subsetting enabled, but historically that hasn't been done because of the effect on file sizes.
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Date: 2008-10-22 09:38 pm (UTC)Given the size of modern disks, and even Internet speeds for e-mail attachments, if I were Microsoft I'd be tempted to turn it on by default, with subsetting enabled, but historically that hasn't been done because of the effect on file sizes.