Hello,
I read several times carefully the table 111 of ISO-32000, and always bear in mind that "Beginning with PDF 1.5, the special treatment given to the standard 14
fonts is deprecated. Conforming writers should represent all fonts using a complete font descriptor. For backwards capability, conforming readers shall still provide the special treatment identified for the standard 14 fonts.".
However, I found a conforming writer that produces 1.6 spec PDFs without embedding the standard fonts. The disturbing point is that it's an Adobe product.
http://www.adobe.com/security/pdfs/entrust_sample_doc.pdf
Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't see what.
So, here is my question: will my soul burn in hell if I'm guilty of writing a PDF writer that still gives to the standard 14 fonts their special treatment?