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Embedded Fonts in Pdf

 

It is often that we need to submit paper or report electronically in portable document format (p.d.f.) that requires the fonts are embedded so that it is easily distributed or printed in various machines and p.d.f. version. It is usual for us to encounter the problem of emmbeded fonts simply because we use our own p.d.f converter. It may be from the pdf driver such as cutepdf, primopdf or our ghost script p.d.f converter.

Here is some "hacking techniques" to debug the problem of embedded fonts (in linux, taken from [1]).  Suppose your non-working p.d.f file is text.pdf

 

(1) convert to ps (postscript file):
pdftops text.pdf

(2) convert back to pdf using prepress settings:
ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress text.ps

(3) check new text.pdf for horrendous formatting errors due to double conversion, and embedded fonts as above.

 

http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~luke/embedded_fonts.html

 

Sep 2, 2009 Posted Under: HOW TO, Portable Document, UNIX   Read More