[OS X TeX] Text in illustrations - unembedded

[Lee Tryhorn]

On 23/03/2006, at 5:25 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 23 mars 06 à 03:11, Lee Tryhorn a écrit :
>
>> It appears that the problem lies in the text in some of the figures 
>> that I am inserting into the document, when I comment out the figures 
>> that have text in them I can view the pdf in Windows with no 
>> problems.  Has this happened to anyone before?
>>
>> It has been suggested to me that that because the text in the figures 
>> used on the standard fonts available the software didn't embed these 
>> fonts.  Then when the figures were added to the TeX stuff, 
>> ghostscript didn't embed those fonts either.
>>
>> The figures were created in IDL.
>
> Well, disregard my previous message, I was reading and answering mail 
> sequentially. You seem to be producing figures in EPS format with IDL, 
> then compiling the document which includes them in TeXShop in TeX and 
> GhostScript mode.
>
> The problem seems to lie in GhostScript not embedding the fonts from 
> the figures. GhostScript experts here would probably tell you how to 
> add the fonts and edit mapping files somewhere inside 
> /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/, such that GhostScript can see and 
> use the fonts, but I'm not one such expert.
>
> What I would recommend: take the EPS figures produced by IDL, and 
> convert them to PDF format by using Apple's Distiller 
> /usr/bin/pstopdf. This can be done by either:
>
> - Opening the EPS figures one by one in Preview, then saving them to 
> PDF format.
>
> - Assuming you have a folder of such figures, navigate to this folder 
> in Terminal then run:
>
> 	apply pstopdf *.eps
>
> This will convert all the EPS figures (assumed to have a .eps 
> extension) to PDF format in one go.
>
> And then, in TeXShop select Apple Distiller in Prefs > Misc > 
> Distiller and compile your document in TeXShop in pdfTeX mode. Given 
> your document looks fine on your Mac, the fonts used by your IDL 
> figures seem to be available on the Mac, hence using Apple Distiller 
> should (I imagine) embed them properly when converting them to PDF.
>
> Hope this works,
>
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>

This was a very good suggestion, unfortunately it did not work!  How 
frustrating.
Also, when I tried to typset using TeX and Ghostscript I get the the 
error message

This script has been deprecated. Please call

     simpdftex latex --maxpfb heatwave.tex

instead.

Not sure what that means.

Lee
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