[pdftex] Strange problems with graphics inclusion

Thanh Han The hanthethanh at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 14:52:53 CEST 2007


Hi Ulrich,

I uploaded a djgpp binary to
http://www.sendspace.com/file/br8b21

can you please try it to see whether the prolem is gone?

Thanks,
Thanh

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:39:57AM +0200, Ulrich Dirr wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I can now confirm this too! After some emails with Hans who suspected a
> confusion with my map files I made several tests with only the fonts
> which are used inside the document input via map file. Same error.
>
> Then I edited my original Illustrator file and replaced all text of
> HelveticaNeueLT with Helvetica -- et voil� -- everything worked fine
> because body font and font of included graphic file are different.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ulrich
>
> RS wrote:
> > On 20.06.2007 08:56, Ulrich Dirr wrote:
> >> All pdfs fail that have fonts (in fact it's HelveticaNeueLT-Roman,
> >> lowercase a-h and numbers 1-8) included.
> >
> > I can confirm the problem. On preflighting with Acrobat 7 I get an
> > "Unknown error (unknown exception)". It seems to be related to font
> > inclusion:
> >
> > When I ran your test3.tex (unchanged), the resulting file was
> > OK. Now,
> > the difference between our setup is that I don't have HelveticaNeueLT,
> > hence pdftex doesn't try to include it but only takes it from
> > the image
> > file. So here's a new minimal example:
> >
> > --- the included file ----
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage[paperwidth=3cm,paperheight=3cm]{geometry}
> > \renewcommand\familydefault{cmss}
> > \begin{document}
> > B
> > \end{document}
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > --- the main file ---------
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> > \pdfmapline{cmr10 CMR10 <cmr10.pfb}
> > % \pdfmapline{+cmss10 CMSS10 <cmss10.pfb}
> > \begin{document}
> > A\par\includegraphics{test_grf}
> > \end{document}
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > This PDF file will be OK. However, if I acquaint pdftex with cmss by
> > uncommenting the pdfmapline line, it will result in the same
> > error again.
> >
> > You could try to remove all map entries for HelveticaNeueLT.
> > Of course,
> > if you are using this font elsewhere in the document, you are
> > out of luck.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > But: The same test with a pdftex that includes all current
> > patches from
> > sarovar runs fine. So it seems the bug is resolved in the
> > next version.
> > (When will it be released, BTW?)
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
>
>
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