[OS X TeX] zapf dingbats

[Michael Sharpe]

On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:02 PM, David Arnold wrote:

> 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 ****

It appears that ZapfDingbats is hard-coded into the acrotex package as part of the pdfmark code. Open the resulting ps file in a text editor and search for ZapfDingbats. I'd say the quickest solution is to purchase the Adobe ZapfDingbats Postscript font (about $26 online.) This is not a LaTeX font issue.

Michael