[pdftex] Strange font name in PDF

[Robert B. Howlett]

On 10/05/2011 6:27 AM, Ross Moore wrote:
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> On 10/05/2011, at 1:11 AM, narke wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> In the pdflatex generated file, I found the font names look strange,
>> it seem has some kind of random string as prefix, such as
>> LUSKLS-CMR10.
>
> This is a perfectly standard name for a font subset;
> in this case a subset of CMR10.
> The prefix implies that it is not the complete font.
> Different subsets of the same font must have a different
> prefix. When a PDF application finds that a document will
> contain different subsets of the same font, then these
> can be combined.
>
> This naming scheme dates from PDF v1.1.
> It is described in
>
>      §7.7.4   PDF Reference Manual v1.3  (1999)  Adobe Systems Inc.
>      §5.5.3   PDF Reference 5th ed. PDF v1.6  (2004)  Adobe Systems Inc.
>      §9.6.4   Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7  (2008)
>
> and other versions of the PDF specification documents.
>
>>
>> I tried to read pdftex manul, but it seem not easy to me.  I lack some
>> tex knowledge, just know how to use pdflatex to produce pdf from latex
>> soruce.
>>
>> Now these strange fonts name are causing problems to me. When I tried
>> to convert a tikz pictures to emf picture using pstoedit, the fonts
>> mapping looked not correct.
>
> Sounds like  pstoedit  isn't programmed to combine font subsets
> automatically. There is no instance of 'subset' in the docs:
>
>     http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit/pstoedit.htm
>
>>
>> Is there a way letting me have standard fonts names in produced PDF files?
>
> These *are* standard PDF font subset names.
>
>   pstoedit  has a  -fontmap  option which may do what you want;
> that is, allow you to map the prefixed font-subset names to the
> full font name, and thereby (hopefully) include the whole font
> (provided you have it on your system).
>
>
> Others, with experience using  pstoedit , may be able to confirm
> whether this is possible or not, or give advice on what else
> to try.
>

I believed that one could turn off font subsetting (and include fonts
entirely) by using << instead of < in the map file. Is this still
correct?

>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence
>>      -- Schopenhauer
>>
>> narke
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> Hope this helps,
>
> 	Ross
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