[OS X TeX] zapf dingbats

[Michael Sharpe]

On Mar 12, 2010, at 6:56 PM, David Arnold wrote:

> Michael and Peter,
> 
> Thank you very much for hanging in there with my difficulty. If I can get this corrected, then students at our college can purchase a printed versions our free Prealgebra Textbook:
> 
> http://msenux.redwoods.edu/PreAlgText/
> 
> For about $28 instead of the $40 something dollars charged by our bookstore.
> 
> First test:
> 
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro-2:temp darnold$ kpsewhich psfonts.map
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
> 
> So a personal updmap.cfg doesn't seem to be the problem.
> 
> There seem to be two updmap.cfg file:
> 
> In /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg I have:
> 
> # Valid settings are true / false:
> dvipsDownloadBase35 false
> 
> In /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg I have:
> 
> # Valid settings are true / false:
> dvipsDownloadBase35 true
> 
> I also have two psfonts_t1.map files. 
> 
> In /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts_t1.map I have:
> 
> pzdr ZapfDingbats
> 
> In /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts_t1.map I have:
> 
> pzdr Dingbats <uzdr.pfb
> 
> I have made no further attempts at changes. I await your opinion.
> 
> David.
> 
> On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:09 PM, David Arnold wrote:
>> 
>>> Michael,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for trying, but that did not work.
>>> 
>>> Dragging the ps file onto Distiller (macbook), I still get:
>>> 
>>> Acrobat Distiller 9.3.0
>>> Started: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM
>>> Adobe PostScript software version: 3018.101
>>> CID support library initialization completed.
>>> 
>>> Distilling: c1s1ex1_1.ps
>>> Start Time: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM
>>> Source: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/chapter1/youtryit/c1s1ex1_1.ps
>>> Destination: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/chapter1/youtryit/c1s1ex1_1.pdf
>>> Adobe PDF Settings: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/Standard.joboptions
>>> %%[ Warning: ZapfDingbats not found, using Font Substitution. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
>>> Distill Time: 1 seconds (00:00:01)
>>> **** End of Job ****
>>> 
>>> Could it be that the fonts are not available in the Mactex Texlive 2009 distribution.  On the mac, ZapfDingbats.ttf is available in /System/Library/Fonts.
>>> 
>>> And this evidence:
>>> 
>>> david-arnolds-macbook-pro-2:temp darnold$ locate pzdr | grep pfb
>>> david-arnolds-macbook-pro-2:temp darnold$ 
>>> 
>>> David.
>>> 
>>> On Mar 12, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:41 PM, David Arnold wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am using Mactex 2009 on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I drop a .ps file on Acrobat Distiller, I get this warning:
>>>>> 
>>>>> %%[ Warning: ZapfDingbats not found, using Font Substitution. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
>>>>> 
>>>>> I usually ignore this error, but I am trying to upload the resulting pdf file to lulu.com and it won't let me, telling me that the ZapfDingbats are not embedded.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ZapfDingbats is in the LW35 collection, so your settings in updmap.cfg may prevent it being included in the ps. Assuming you are using a system-wide updmap.cfg, you could try
>>>> 
>>>> sudo updmap-sys --setoption dvipsDownloadBase35=true
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>> 
>> If dvipsDownloadBase35 is set to false in updmap.cfg (the default, I believe), you get exactly the behavior you describe because there is an entry in the system psfonts_t1.map that reads
>> 
>> pzdr ZapfDingbats
>> 
>> which means that no attempt is made to include a font file---just use the name ZapfDingbats in the ps file. On the other hand, if dvipsDownloadBase35 is set to true, the line will change to
>> 
>> pzdr Dingbats <uzdr.pfb
>> 
>> which forces downloading of the URW clone of ZapfDingbats.
>> 
>> The only explanation I can see for why this step failed in your case is that you are not using a system-wide updmap.cfg, but have a personal version that prevents LaTeX from seeing the system-wide version. If the command
>> 
>> kpsewhich psfonts.map
>> 
>> displays something in your home directory (like ~/.texlive2009/...) then this is the explanation. You can either dump the .texlive2009 directory or use the command
>> 
>> updmap --setoption dvipsDownloadBase35=true
>> 
>> to fix it temporarily. (There are problems with keeping a personal version of updmap.cfg. For example, you will lose the changes when a new TeXLive is installed, and updates made with TeX Live Utility to your distribution fonts will not  seem to have any effect.)
>> 
>> Michael

Well, we seem to have the same setup, and in my case, it does what I expect. Let me know what happens when you process the following simple file.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pifont}
\begin{document}
\ding{36}
\end{document}  

In my case, the ps file contains the line

%%DocumentFonts: Dingbats CMR10

and the Dingbats font is included in the ps file.

Michael