[OS X TeX] pdf font coding problems

[George Gratzer]

First of all, I would like to thank you all for the time you took to =20
help me.

The problem is solved, although the solution is time consuming and =20
awkward. As an academic, interested in solving in great detail =20
problems that do not even occur to others, I am very dissatisfied.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how Illustrator complained =20
about missing Nimbus fonts? I do not have any on my computer. =20
Googling Nimbus, I find that I can buy it at myfonts.com. I can buy

Nimbus Roman No9 L

as regular italic or medium italic. Would it help?

I also found a Web site for GhostScript fonts, including Nimbus. =20
Unfortunately, it showed only three links to downloading them and all
were dead.

So thanks to all,

George

On Dec 19, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 19 déc. 05 à 11:17, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
>
>> Am 19.12.2005 um 10:49 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
>>
>>> 	sudo -H updmap-sys --setoption dvipsDownloadBase35 true
>>> 	sudo -H updmap-sys --setoption pdftexDownloadBase14 true
>>> 	sudo -H updmap-sys --setoption dvipdfmDownloadBase14 true
>>
>> Doesn't this mean that you need to have these 35 PostScript fonts  
>> installed for TeX? I think they're not free and not contained in  
>> the TeX i-Package (only TFM and VF) ... So when you want to  
>> download these fonts or when you want to have automatic font  
>> expansion as a microtypographic feature available, you need to use  
>> their urw++ clones ... I have completely switched off the use of  
>> urw++ substitutes (because I'm a rich man, owner of a PostScript 3  
>> printer!), but I think once you select any of the urw MAP file  
>> fragments they are listed there as items to be downloaded.  
>> Otherwise you wouldn't be able to print with these fonts. So this  
>> won't help George, I think.
>
> I think you're mistaken: the updmap documentation isn't  
> particularly extensive or clear, but from reading the updmap script  
> and its man page, it seems to me that the dvipsDownloadBase35  
> option (and similarly for the pdfTeX and dvipdfm ones) precisely  
> has this function: replacing the Adobe fonts by their URW clones,  
> and making sure these are downloaded.
>
> From the man page, it seems that, with dvipsDownloadBase35 set to  
> true, download35.map is used to construct psfonts.map, which will  
> contain, for example:
>
> pcrr8r NimbusMonL-Regu "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc  
> <ucrr8a.pfb
>
> telling the URW clone of Courier will be used and included in the  
> PDF output.
>
> With dvipsDownloadBase35 set to false, builtin35.map will be used  
> instead, so that psfonts.map will contain:
>
> pcrr8r Courier "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc
>
> telling Courier itself will be used but not included in the PDF  
> output.
>
> That said, I can confirm what George observed: attempting to open a  
> PDF file created with TeX + dvips + GS, and containing Nimbus  
> fonts, in Illustrator CS 2 I get a message telling several Nimbus  
> fonts are missing and will be substituted (they indeed are, by a  
> sans-serif font, possibly Lucida Grande).
>
> However, opening the same PDF file in Acrobat, I can verify the  
> Nimbus fonts are indeed there (in the form of partial sets).
>
> In any case, after posting my preceding message in this thread this  
> morning I saw the discussion had been moved to another thread "[OS  
> X TeX] Font problem", and the problem solved, so I will stop here.
>
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