Fonts in eps figures

[Don R. Robinson]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:20:31 +0100, Sue Rodd <jcm at LMS.AC.UK> wrote:

>Hi there
>
>Once again, I have (I think) a problem with fonts (nothing changes...).
>
>I have a paper from an author, which includes dozens of eps figures. He
has
>used mathtype for the labelling, and it all prints out perfectly on my HP
>printer if I print direct from the dvi file.  His conversion of the
original
>tex file to pdf also prints out correctly.
>
>However, if _I_ convert to postscript and then PDF using my trusty YandY,
a
>number of the symbols just disappear from some of the figures
(\varnothing,
>\alpha, \prime, \vee and \wedge -- but all the letters seem to come out
OK)!
>This happens with both his original tex file and with the one that I have
>edited with our journal style.
>
>I have tried various subterfuges like using different graphics-insertion
>techniques, but that doesn't seem to help.
>
>I seem to need MTMI, MTEX, MTMS and MTSYN.  I'm using Windows 2K, and all
>these appear in the list of fonts in WINNT, with the correct red "a"
symbol
>for type 1 fonts.  If I list the fonts in the paper, using DVIWIndo, none
of
>them appears in the "TT" column.  There is also, however, an "MT Extra"
>Truetype font in WINNT -- could that be confusing the issue?  I could see
a
>tfm file when I looked, but not an AFM one, so I tried making one from
>DVIWindo.  The pfb and pfm files are in lower-case, and the tfm and afm in
>upper -- does this matter?
>
>(I have just been to the ctan site and picked up new tfm files, but that
>also seems to have no effect.)
>
>Printing out one of the pages with a problem figure on, I get the
following
>log:
>
>***************************************
>Printing directly from DVIPSONE.DLL
>Current directory: `C:\Texdocs\folder\subfolder'
> 0: `DVIPSONE'
> 1: `-v'
> 2: `-d=C:\Texdocs\jcm2004\jcm2004-060b\filename.ps'
> 3: `-B=11'
> 4: `-E=11'
> 5: `-l=a4'
> 6: `-K'
> 7: `-y'
> 8: `142'
> 9: `-V'
>10: `C:\Texdocs\folder\subfolder\filename.dvi'
>DVIPSONE 2.2.8  2002 Apr 30 09:44:06 SN 4962
>Copyright (C) 1990--2002, Y&Y, Inc.  http://www.YandY.com
>
>Command:
>DVIPSONE -v -d=C:\Texdocs\folder\subfolder\filename.ps -B=11 -E=11 -l=a4 -
K
>-y 142 -V C:\Texdocs\folder\subfolder\filename.dvi
>Processing DVI file C:\Texdocs\folder\subfolder\filename.dvi
>(to C:\Texdocs\folder\subfolder\filename.ps)
>TeX output 2005.07.14:1909
>Warning: no ATMREG.ATM Font Table:
>  0 tii        at:    10 pt
>  1 tir        at:     8 pt
>  2 tir        at:    12 pt base:  1 ( 38) *new-size*
>  3 tirsc      at:    10 pt *unused*
>  4 tir        at:    10 pt base:  1 ( 38) *new-size*
>  5 MTMI       at:    10 pt
>  6 tib        at:    10 pt
>  7 MTSYN      at:    10 pt
>  8 tii        at:     8 pt base:  0 ( 15) *new-size*
>  9 msbm10     at:    10 pt
> 10 tir        at:   7.6 pt base:  1 ( 38) *new-size*
> 11 MTEX       at:    10 pt
> 12 MTMS       at:    10 pt *unused*
> 13 MTSYN      at:   7.6 pt base:  7 ( 21) *new-size*
> 14 MTMI       at:   7.6 pt base:  5 ( 18) *new-size*
> 15 msam10     at:    10 pt *unused*
> 16 MTSYN      at:     6 pt base:  7 ( 21) *new-size*
> 17 msbm7      at:   7.6 pt *unused*
> 18 lasy10     at:    10 pt *unused*
> 19 tir        at:     6 pt base:  1 ( 38) *new-size*
> 20 msam7      at:   7.6 pt *unused*
> 21 MTMS       at:   7.6 pt base: 12 ( 41) *new-size*
> 22 MTMI       at:     6 pt base:  5 ( 18) *new-size*
> 23 com        at:     9 pt *unused*
> 24 com        at:    10 pt base: 23 ( 64) *new-size*
>
>[tii~] [tir~] [MTMI] [tib~] [MTSYN] [msbm10] [MTEX]
>Processed 7 font files  - remapped 3 fonts to `TEXNANSI' encoding.
>[11 fig1.eps fig2.eps]
>Max stack depth 16 - 25 font slots used - DVI file contains 50 pages
>Processed 1 page
>Time: 0.547 sec (0.029 sec per font file + 0.344 sec per page output)
>
>DONE
>***********************************
>
>Please, someone, tell me I've done something dumb, and there's an easy
fix!
>
>All the best
>
>Sue

I have had similar problems when including ps files in LaTeX documents.  I
created the ps files with metapost and use the LaTeX commands to typeset
labels for various diagrams.  When I included the ps files in LaTeX
documents all that showed up was a box and a label indicating which file
was used.  I printed to Actobat distiller (5.0) to produce pdf files and
was surprised that only some of the typeset material showed up in my
diagrams.  It finally dawned on me that the distiller only partially
embeds fonts (a requirement for the font license) and does not recognize
characters within a ps file as needing to be embedded.

I got around the problem by including a line in the document (outside of
any diagram) that included all the characters I used in the diagrams.
Then with Acrobat's text touch-up tool, I simply removed them from the pdf
file.  The characters showed up in the diagram.  After a while, I got more
creative and simply built the characters into the narrative that appeared
before the diagram, so no after-the-fact touch up was needed.

Others may have simpler suggestions, but this method has always worked for
me.