[OS X TeX] zapf dingbats

David Arnold dwarnold45 at suddenlink.net
Sat Mar 13 07:02:14 CET 2010


Don, Michael,

Here is a simple document that produces the problem.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
    web=designiv,
    exerquiz
]{aeb_pro}
\begin{document}
Hello.
\end{document}

I am using Donald Story's acrotex and acrotex pro packages:

acrotex_pack.zip

aebpro_pack.zip

When I latex and dvips, then drop the ps file on Distiller, I get this error:

Acrobat Distiller 9.3.0
Started: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Adobe PostScript software version: 3018.101
CID support library initialization completed.

Distilling: junk.ps
Start Time: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Source: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/story/junk.ps
Destination: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/story/junk.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 ****

D

On Mar 12, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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