On 5/3/12 1:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:08:00 +0200
From: Zdenek Wagner<[email protected]>
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] how do I embed fonts into a a xelatex generated
pdf?
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Short answer: you have to buy Helvetica.
Long answer: There are basic 15 PS fonts and basic 35 PDF fonts that
must be according to the specification available everywhere. However,
this requirement is broken even in Adobe products (the author of the
specification) and it is quite common to see different versions of
Times and Helvetica with different metrics (it cost me some money and
damaged output to discover this crucial problem). It is therefore
good (and required by DTP studios and printer houses) to embed all
fonts. These 35 basic fonts are commercial and thus cannot be
distributed with TeX. There are free replacements (from URW and other
vendors). Now you have two options:
1. Embed the replacement fonts possibly losing quality
2. Do not embed the font and hope that the user has either the
commercial font or a replacement font that will not be worse.
Of course option 1 is better unless you know that the user has the
commercial font with exactly the same metrics as you. You have to look
into the manual of your TeX distribution how to instruct it to embed
all fonts (it is done by updmap-sys in TeX Live). If you want to have
fonts with better quality, you can consider using TeX Gyre Heros
instead of Helvetica.
Still one problem remains. You may include images created by tools as
gnuplot or inkscape that insert texts in Helvetica but do not embed
the font. It will need some tweaking depending on the tool.
Ah! That is exactly my problem I now realize. My paper in and of itself
does not use Helvetica but I am using
gnuplot to generate figures. So, I guess I am going with (2). The use of
Helvetica in the figures is so
small that hopefully any difference will be so small as to be
undetectable. I am willing to bet that Helvetica is a
common enough font and gnuplot is a common enough tool that this
shouldn't be an issue. We'll see...
And also, just for the record, I found these directions on embedding
fonts to be very clear:
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/public_files/embeded_fonts.php
Thank you very much for the help!
One final thing. I just discovered a clever workaround.
For the entire document run pdf2ps
pdf2ps document.pdf
and the run this command on the ps file
ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress document.ps
This seems to work for embedding the fonts without having to regenerate
anything!
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