[Mac OS X TeX] How to get teTeX pdf mathematics read by Illustrator X

[Michel Bovani]

Le 14/02/02 à 12:47 +0100 Piet van Oostrum a écrit :
>  >>>>> "Dr. Paul Fons" <paul-fons at aist.go.jp> (PF) writes:
>
>PF> I would like to make some slides in Illustrator using mathematics typeset
>PF> using pdftex (TeXShop). The pdf file looks great in preview as 
>well as with
>PF> Acrobat, but Illustrator, while able to open the file, does not display
>PF> some characters (noninclusively specifically greek and minus signs).  The
>PF> type 1 fonts exist in the system Library folder and Acrobat indicates that
>PF> they are imbedded as well (CMSY10 and CMMI10).  What is the score here --
>PF> how can I get Illustrator to read in the typeset mathematics 
>correctly.  It
>PF> should be added here that Illustrator 9 does apparently read in the file
>PF> correctly (according to a colleague), but has trouble with printing.
>
>This is most probably caused by these characters occupying charactercodes <
>32. TeX uses these indeed for Greek characters and the minus sign. MacOS9
>applications are know to have problems with this encoding. dvips has a
>special option -G to remap these characters to codes > 128, which by the
>way will not work with 256-character fonts like Times-Roman or the EC fonts.
>Als dvipdfm has an option to do this. So I guess you would have to take
>this route. I am not aware of an easy way to do it with pdftex.

\pdfmovechars = 1 or \pdfmovechars = 2
1 : move the 32 lower chars only if the pont have less than 129 chars,
2 : try to move them anyway.

One may use move_chars = 1 or 2 in pdftex.cfg instead.

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