[pdftex] Change font names in PDF

[Robert B. Howlett]

On 20/05/2011 1:09 PM, narke wrote:
> Will mathptmx produce TimesRoman? That's great, I will try.  And, is there
> any other font package produce Windows-like fonts names? Thanks in advanced!
> On May 19, 2011 2:20 PM, "Thomas Feuerstack"<
> Thomas.Feuerstack at fernuni-hagen.de>  wrote:
>> Am 19.05.2011 04:06, schrieb narke:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>> My question is, can I change the font names reported by my PDF
>>> document? -- My PDFs were generated by pdflatex.
>>
>> hmm, why don't you use other fonts at the time you're creating the PDF?
>> For example, \usepackage{mathmptmx} would set your document in
>> TimesRoman instead of Computer Modern.
>>
>> Regards - Thomas
>

You could presumably also download truetype versions of the
cm fonts from ctan and get pdflatex to use them in preference
to the type 1 versions, and also install the ttf files in
windows/fonts

Bob Howlett