Hi Piotr,
> A potential problem with GROFF/ghostscript is that it DOES NOT embed
> the Symbol font even with the -P-e option. I wish the developers could
> check this.
groff 1.22.4-1 on Arch Linux. I tried -e and found groff could no
longer find the Symbol font to embed. Investigation showed the fix and
I now think it does.
$ troff -Tpdf <<<'\(ra' | gropdf | pdffonts -
name type encoding emb sub uni object ID
------------ --------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
Symbol Type 1 Custom no no no 5 0
$
$ troff -Tpdf <<<'\(ra' | gropdf -e | pdffonts -
Failed to open '/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/StandardSymbolsPS'
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
$
$ pkgfile -v StandardSymbolsPS
extra/ghostscript 9.27-2
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/StandardSymbolsPS
$ </usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/StandardSymbolsPS
$
$ cd /usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf
$ grep Symbol download
Symbol */usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/StandardSymbolsPS
$ sudo sed -i 's,ghostscript/9.26,ghostscript/9.27,' download
$
$ troff -Tpdf <<<'\(ra' | gropdf -e | pdffonts -
name type encoding emb sub uni object ID
------------ --------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
Symbol Type 1 Custom yes no no 5 0
$
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Cheers, Ralph.
