[OS X TeX] pdf font coding problems

[Themis Matsoukas]

in Acrobat, both files show the same set of fonts (a bunch of CMR,  
Helvetica, and symbol).

When I use pdffonts in the terminal, I get "-bash: pdffonts: command  
not found"

Themis



On Dec 20, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 20 déc. 05 à 15:19, Themis Matsoukas a écrit :
>
>> I am not using Latin Modern (i.e. I don't think I am - my preamble  
>> does not contain anything unusual). I don't think the problem is  
>> illustrator because when I typeset a file that imports (via  
>> \includegraphics) an old pdf graphic (it was edited in CS2 to  
>> include latex fonts) I now get substituted fonts. The exact same  
>> files (latex source + pdf graphic) used to produce a latex output  
>> with no font substitutions. So I think it's something in the tex  
>> installation...
>
> Can you look at the fonts included in the two versions of your PDF  
> file (the one yielding no problem in Illustrator, and the one  
> yielding problems), and see whether they differ?
>
> You can use Adobe Reader or Acrobat for this (go to File > Document  
> Properties, and select the Fonts tab), or probably better pdffonts  
> (mentioned yesterday by Peter Dyballa in the thread "[OS X TeX]  
> Font problem"), to be operated from the command line and which will  
> yield ASCII output such as:
>
> $ pdffonts abstract-efmc6v2.pdf
> Error: No paper information available - using defaults
> name                                 type         emb sub uni  
> object ID
> ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- ---  
> ---------
> ARYZOH+HoeflerText-Black             TrueType     yes yes no        
> 8  0
> PYZJFI+HoeflerText-Regular           TrueType     yes yes no       
> 11  0
> LVKPML+LucidaNewMath-Symbol          Type 1       yes yes no       
> 14  0
> TQXQRL+HoeflerText-Italic            TrueType     yes yes no       
> 17  0
> GUJETN+LucidaNewMath-AltItalic       Type 1       yes yes no       
> 20  0
> IAQHIA+LucidaBright                  Type 1       yes yes no       
> 23  0
> GJOLEN+HoeflerText-Regular           Type 1C      yes yes yes      
> 28  0
> FGNTZQ+HoeflerText-Regular           Type 1C      yes yes yes      
> 37  0
> IFGLTF+HoeflerText-Italic            Type 1C      yes yes no       
> 38  0
> IPCHFM+Symbol                        Type 1C      yes yes no       
> 39  0
>
> (this comes from a LaTeX file using Lucida and Hoefler thanks to  
> gtamacfonts, and including a graphics -- prepared with Mathematica  
> then Illustrator -- containing Hoefler and Symbol).
>
> pdffonts is a tool coming with the xpdf PDF viewer <http:// 
> ftp.foolabs.com/xpdf/>. I installed xpdf through DarwinPorts, and  
> it can also be obtained through Fink. Apparently, however, the non  
> X-windows tools associated with xpdf (not xpdf itself) are already  
> available as precompiled binaries from <http://users.phg-online.de/ 
> tk/MOSXS/>.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bruno------------------------- Info --------------------------
> Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
>          & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
>
>
>

------------------------- Info --------------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
          & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/