[pdftex] Fwd: [Mac OS X TeX] printing accented letters

[Gerben Wierda]

Someone asked my help with the following problem. Printing accented 
characters does not work when using pdftex, but it does work with 
tex+dvips+ps2pdf. He wrote me this e-mail but I do not know what is 
going on, I do not know enough about the gritty font details. What is 
going on here? Is this a known problem?

Thanks,

G

Begin forwarded message:

>> Not necessarily strange. There might be a difference between the two 
>> where type 1 fonts is concerned. Maybe the dvips route uses bitmap 
>> fonts for that particular font where you have the accented characters.
>
> Dear Gerben,
> Thanks for the hint ---
>
> Letting Acrobat Reader list all the fonts in a document,
> it turns out the difference is this:
>
> pdftex:          Encoding = Custom
>                  Actual Font = Embedded subset
>
> tex-dvi-ps-pdf:  Encoding = Built-in
>                  Actual Font = Embedded
>
>
> Would it be possible for me to instruct pdftex to use built-in
> encoding and/or embedded fonts?  Do you think it would solve the
> problem?   If it is complicated or tricky, please don't waste time
> on me --- I can easily live with the tex-dvi-ps-pdf way...