[pdftex] Finding where a Type 3 font is used

Dario Teixeira nlv13684 at natlab.research.philips.com
Fri Oct 7 17:04:57 CEST 2005


Hi everybody,

Given a PDF file, is there any way to locate where exactly in the
document a certain font is used?

I am asking this because even though (I think) I am using only
Type 1 fonts, the output PDF produced by pdflatex seems to still
contain some Type 3 fonts.

Here are the font-related packages I am using:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{eucal}

And here is the report from "pdffonts" (note the embedded Type 3):

name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
Times-Roman                          Type 1       no  no  no     285  0
Times-Roman                          Type 1       no  no  no     289  0
Times-Italic                         Type 1       no  no  no     296  0
Times-Bold                           Type 1       no  no  no     302  0
QMJTWT+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167  Type 1       yes yes no     331  0
YRISMS+CMEX10                        Type 1       yes yes no     962  0
[none]                               Type 3       yes no  no     985  0
CKRQVL+CMMI10                        Type 1       yes yes no    1051  0
NXQDAX+CMR10                         Type 1       yes yes no    1056  0
UOMWWU+CMSY10                        Type 1       yes yes no    1059  0
EPLUIL+EUSM10                        Type 1       yes yes no    1196  0
Symbol                               Type 1       no  no  no    1234  0
KRWDLN+StandardSymL-Slant_167        Type 1       yes yes no    1278  0
QGRHPA+MSBM10                        Type 1       yes yes no    1439  0
ZapfDingbats                         Type 1       no  no  no    1728  0
VBDMGG+MSAM10                        Type 1       yes yes no    1761  0
NWZBAH+Times-Roman                   Type 1C      yes yes no    1870  0
RYRUPZ+Times-Roman                   Type 1C      yes yes no    1877  0
REJPDT+Times-Roman                   Type 1C      yes yes no    1894  0
VCZKUN+Times-Roman                   Type 1C      yes yes no    1901  0
AIPOQN+Times-Roman                   Type 1C      yes yes no    1926  0
[none]                               Type 3       yes no  no    1951  0
[none]                               Type 3       yes no  no    1972  0

Now, Acrobat Reader will tell me the same thing: that there are some
Type 3 fonts in the document, but I could not find a way to discover
where exactly!

Btw, I am using pdftex 3.14159-1.10b, included in TeTeX 2.0.2.
(Standard Fedora Core 3 package).

Thanks in advance for your help!
Kind regards,
D. Teixeira




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