[pdftex] Font subsetting with PDFs from InDesign? (fwd)

[Thanh Han The]

I forward this mail to the list, in case someone runs into a
similar problem.

Thanh

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> From: The Thanh Han <hanthethanh at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:18:52 +0200
> To: Martin Schr�der <martin at oneiros.de>
> Reply-To: The Thanh Han <hanthethanh at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pdftex] Font subsetting with PDFs from InDesign?
>
> have you looked into the pdf? there are 2 font dictionaries,
> but only 1 fontfile for RotisSemiSans-Light.
>
> Thanh
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:45:34AM +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote:
> > 2008/7/11 Thanh Han The <hanthethanh at gmail.com>:
> > > there is a simple workaround: try not to subset those fonts
> > > (eg use '<<cmr10.pfb' in mapfile). Then each fontfile will be
> > > included entirely, but only once for all instances in the
> > > whole doc.
> >
> > Thanh,
> > this doesn't work. :-{
> >
> > Try the attached test: We include two files with RotisSemiSans-Light.
> > But although the mapline is
> > \pdfmapline{+pr3l8r  RotisSemiSans-Light " TeXBase1Encoding
> > ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <<pr3l8a.pfb}
> > we get two font entries (ignore the Helvetica):
> >
> > name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
> > ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> > Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no       7  0
> > RotisSemiSans-Light                  Type 1            yes no  no      10  0
> > Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no      12  0
> > RotisSemiSans-Light                  Type 1            yes no  no      14  0
> >
> > Best
> >    Martin
>
>

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