[pdftex] Strange font name in PDF

[Thanh Han The]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Robert B. Howlett
<rhowlett at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 6:27 AM, Ross Moore wrote:
>>
>> On 10/05/2011, at 1:11 AM, narke wrote:
>>
>>> 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?

yes, and it is the simplest solution for the given question.

Regards,
Thanh