[Tugindia] Type 3 fonts problem
harishankar ramachandran
tugindia@tug.org
Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:18:15 +0530
Hi all,
I have a strange problem I want help on.
Platform: RH Linux 7.2
tetex version: 1.0.7
xpdf version: 0.92
I wrote a paper in TeX and converted it into pdf to submit for a
conference. My litmus paper test is to see if xpdf can display it,
since I have yet to see a file that displays correctly under xpdf but
gives problems on other viewers/platforms.
I used
\usepackage{pslatex}
to enforce Type 1 font usage (so I thought), and when I ran Latex and dvips,
the output was correct. 'gv' could display the file properly.
However, running ps2pdf created a file that xpdf claimed was full of
Type 3 fonts, and it did not display correctly. (However, both
Acroread and gv continued to work). This procedure usually causes
problems if a windows user tries to print the file, since Type 3
printer fonts are usually not available.
When I instead ran
divps -Ppdf -o paper.ps paper.dvi
ps2pdf paper.ps paper.pdf
I now got a file that was correctly viewable by all three (though xpdf
still complained about Type 3 fonts) except that all 'fi' sequences were
replaced by the pound symbol.
To summarize:
=================================================================
pslatex | -Ppdf | gv | xpdf | acroread | windows
=================================================================
no | no | ok | blank | ok | does not print
-----------------------------------------------------------------
yes | no | ok | errors| ok | ?
-----------------------------------------------------------------
yes | yes | fi | fi | fi error | ?
=================================================================
Running dvipdf did not help, and pdflatex is not an option, since I
have a number of eps files I would rather not tinker with.
What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to avoid the dreaded Type
3 message and get correct output that will be correctly viewed on all
systems?
hari
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