[OS X TeX] Creating a Sensible PDF Document

[Philipp Mathey]

Jonathan, Peter : Thanks.

I didn't want to hijack this thread which Jeffrey started and
which mentioned various options, not just  xelatex+xdvipdfmx .

Thanks,
PM
On 7-Feb-07, at 2:30 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 7 Feb 2007, at 6:56 pm, Philipp Mathey wrote:
>
>> Thanks Bruno !
>>
>> I was in fact using xdvipdfmx together with the "-p letter -q -E"
>> option. Good to know that this suffices. By the way, the option "-q"
>> is not listed. Does it stand for "quiet" or something ? I think it  
>> suppresses some
>> command line output.
>
> Correct. This needs to be added to the usage message. (Actually, it  
> sometimes suppresses a little too much... needs some adjustment!)
>
>> I tried a little experiment by compiling a document with
>> "xelatex -no-pdf ..." and then "xdvipdfmx (-q -E) ..."  and then  
>> sending the resulting pdf file it to
>> some server running Linux. It seems the -E didn't
>> have any effect on the size of the resulting pdf file.  I could  
>> read the pdf file
>> on the Linux system, using xpdf, with or without the -E option.
>
> Yes. -E doesn't mean quite what Bruno thought. (Ah, if only there  
> was documentation.....!)
>
> AFAIK, xdvipdfmx will always embed the fonts needed, *unless* the  
> license flags in the font prohibit this. (Some vendors don't want  
> their fonts to be embedded.)
>
> The -E option tells the driver to always embed the fonts,  
> regardless of the license restriction. You get a warning message if  
> a restricted font is used, but the resulting PDF document is fine  
> to use. I suppose to respect the vendor's license terms, you  
> shouldn't circulate such a document, but as generating a PDF (with  
> the font embedded) is a necessary part of the printing procedure,  
> it seems equivalent to a printer driver including the font within  
> the PostScript stream it sends to the printer.
>
> JK
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