[pdftex] pdflatex and font embedding

[Hartmut Henkel]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Hartmut Henkel wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>
> > I embed several images available in PDF format into my pdflatex
> > document. The problem is that the images have their fonts embedded and
> > so the documents becomes quite large.
>
> > At comp.text.tex I was told to add a line like
> >
> >    \pdfmapline{=<nontfm> SMyriad-Light <8r.enc <smyriad3.pfb}
> >
> > This doesn't change the behaviour.
> >
> > The pdffonts output on one of the embedded PDF files looks like:
> >
> > name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
> > ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
> > SMyriad-Regular                      Type 1C      yes no  no       9  0
> > SMyriad-Light                        Type 1C      yes no  no      11  0
> > LetterGothic12PitchBT-Roman          Type 1C      yes no  no      13  0
> >
> > I use pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4). Can anybody help?
>
> Your method seems to be correct.

looks like a pdftex bug now. Everything is there to replace also Type 1C
but the replacement routine is not reached as some logic precondition
doesn't get true due to yet unknown reasons...

Regards, Hartmut