[tex-live] TeXworks on Windows versus Linux wrt embedding of Japanese fonts
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Mar 12 02:53:33 CET 2013
On 2013-03-12 at 10:10:15 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just posted this issue to the texworks google issue page, but maybe
> there is someone here who can explain it:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=615
>
> the default on TeX Live is *not* to embed Japanese fonts into the
> created pdf, but use the standard names, exmaple:
> $ pdffonts texworks-ptex1.pdf
> name type emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> Ryumin-Light-Identity-H CID Type 0 no no no 5 0
> PVJZJD+CMR10 Type 1C yes yes no 6 0
>
> Now, running on Linux the TeXworks pdf viewer properly uses one of
> the system supplied Japanese fonts to show the characters, while on
> Windows nothing is shown, and no error message either (AFAI can
> see).
>
> Versions used:
> On Linux: Debian/unstable, 0.5~svn1035
> On Windows: what is distributed with TeX Live 2012 (uptodate)
>
> It might be that this is a problem with the distribution of
> TeXworks in TeX Live, or a program internal problem.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
Not embedding all fonts is always a bad idea. It's a matter of fact
that documents which don't contain all fonts aren't portable.
Regards,
Reinhard
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