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

[Mick McQuaid]

I just now printed a document with accented characters
on a Lexmark Z32 from Mac OS X 10.1.3, printing
from Acrobat Reader 5.

The pdflatex version is
  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)

The document can be seen at
  www.u.arizona.edu/~mcquaid/muscomp.pdf

No problems.  Are you able to print this document?
Do you want the LaTeX source to try it?

... regarding a message from Gerben Wierda on Feb 26:
> 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...
> 
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