[tex-live] Embedding TrueType fonts in manuals
Frank Küster
frank at kuesterei.ch
Fri Jul 20 09:41:02 CEST 2007
Dear TeXLive experts,
I hope you can help us in a discussion we had on a Debian list.
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs at computer.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:07:02PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>>
>> Why are the TrueType fonts not included, anyway? It looks like a bug in
>> dvipdf to me. AFAIK Adobe recommends to never assume the presence and
>> correctness of system fonts, and always embed them. Even for the base35
>> fonts used here.
>
> I don't know about Adobe's guidelines (were are they?),
I know about the Adobe recommendations because they were given as the
reason for "pdftexDownloadBase14 true" in teTeX 3.0, but I never
actually read this recommendation and rationale. Can anyone help out?
> but it seems that the "To PDF" conversion tools (LaTeX and DVI which
> I've tried) will never embed TrueType fonts in the generated PDF.
That might be because of "dvipsDownloadBase14 false" in updmap.cfg. But
I'm not sure whether the tex->dvi->ps Workflow is able to embed TrueType
fonts at all. Maybe pdfTeX is needed instead?
> This seems to make sense as:
>
> a- It is common for some TrueType fonts (Courier, Garamond) to be available in
> most installed systems.
According to
$ strace -f -o xpdf.trace xpdf install.en.pdf # look at first and second
# page, then press q
$ grep -a FontName $(grep open xpdf.trace | grep type1 | sed -e 's at .*open("@@;s at pfb".*$@pfb@')
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019004l.pfb:/FontName /NimbusSanL-Bold def
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021003l.pfb:/FontName /NimbusRomNo9L-Regu def
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb:/FontName /NimbusSanL-Regu def
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022003l.pfb:/FontName /NimbusMonL-Regu def
So, no, Times and Helvetica are not present on my system and used,
instead the URW free replacements are used. Which are a quite good
replacement, but not exactly the same.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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