[tex-live] TeXworks on Windows versus Linux wrt embedding of Japanese fonts

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Mar 12 02:53:33 CET 2013


On 2013-03-12 at 10:10:15 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:

 > Dear all, 
 > 
 > I just posted this issue to the texworks google issue page, but maybe
 > there is someone here who can explain it:
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------
 > http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=615
 > 
 > the default on TeX Live is *not* to embed Japanese fonts into the
 > created pdf, but use the standard names, exmaple:
 > $ pdffonts texworks-ptex1.pdf 
 > name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
 > ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
 > Ryumin-Light-Identity-H              CID Type 0        no  no  no       5  0
 > PVJZJD+CMR10                         Type 1C           yes yes no       6  0
 > 
 > Now, running on Linux the TeXworks pdf viewer properly uses one of
 > the system supplied Japanese fonts to show the characters, while on
 > Windows nothing is shown, and no error message either (AFAI can
 > see).
 > 
 > Versions used: 
 > On Linux: Debian/unstable, 0.5~svn1035
 > On Windows: what is distributed with TeX Live 2012 (uptodate)
 > 
 > It might be that this is a problem with the distribution of
 > TeXworks in TeX Live, or a program internal problem.
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------

Not embedding all fonts is always a bad idea.  It's a matter of fact
that documents which don't contain all fonts aren't portable.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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