[pdftex] Embedding fonts

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Wouter Bergmann Tiest
<W.M.BergmannTiest at uu.nl> wrote:

> Hi Arun,
>
> On 11 Apr 2009, at 6:45, Arun Kejariwal wrote:
>
>> For one my publications, I need to embed all the fonts in the pdf.
>> However, in the pdf generated by pdflatex, the following three fonts -
>> Courier-Bold, Times-Roman and Times-Bold - are NOT embedded.
>
>
> What should work is changing "pdftexDownloadBase14 false" to
> "pdftexDownloadBase14 true" in updmap.cfg and then running updmap as root
> (sudo updmap).

Root should use "updmap-sys", which updates the system-wide configuration.
Running "updmap" as root is likely to produce files owned by root in the user's
texmf trees.


> Alternatively, you can add the fonts later with GhostScript
> by running
>
> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -c "<<
> /NeverEmbed [false /Times-Roman /Times-Bold /Courier-Bold] >>
> setdistillerparams" -f in.pdf
>
> where in.pdf is the name of your document and out.pdf is the name of the
> output file which will contain the fonts.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Wouter Bergmann Tiest
>
>



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