[OS X TeX] pdf font coding problems

[Gary L. Gray]

That is odd. It works like a charm here on three different machines.  
Can you send me the file it outputs and I can see if I can see what  
is going on?

-- Gary


On Dec 20, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> I don't seem to be able to manipulate the converted file once in  
> CS2 - I can resize it but I cannot select individual characters,  
> make the background transparent, or see the path of the outlined  
> font. But it works!
>
> Thanks
>
> Themis
>
> On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>>
>> Here is an AppleScript that Francesco and I threw together this  
>> afternoon that takes a PDF generated from a .tex file and converts  
>> all the fonts to outlines. To create an application droplet, copy  
>> the AppleScript code, paste it into the Script Editor, and save it  
>> as an application. You can then drop PDFs on it and it will  
>> convert the fonts to outlines.
>>
>> We actually created an AppleScript Studio app (using Xcode) that  
>> does this, but it only works on the machine on which it is built  
>> and we can't figure out why. If we get it worked out, we will post  
>> the app to the web for download.
>>
>> In fact, we are now working on an app that will use the pdfcrop  
>> Perl script to crop PDF files out of Illustrator after they have  
>> been labeled with using the "outlined fonts" generated above.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions or have suggestions as to  
>> how to get our Xcode app to work on all machines.
>>
>> -- Gary
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- TeX Font Outliner.applescript
>> -- TeX Font Outliner
>>
>> --  Created by Francesco Costanzo & Gary L. Gray on 12/20/05.
>> --  Copyright 2005 __The two guys above__. All rights reserved.
>> (*
>> on idle
>> 	(* Add any idle time processing here. *)
>> end idle
>> *)
>>
>> on open Filename
>> 	(* Add your script to process the names here. *)
>> 	set FileInformation to AssembleFileInfo(Filename)
>> 	set CDCommand to "cd " & (FDirectory of FileInformation) & "; "
>> 	(*
>> 	gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOCACHE -sOutputFile=nofont-test.ps -q - 
>> dbatch -dNOPAUSE test.pdf -c quit
>> 	*)
>> 	do shell script (CDCommand & "/usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=pswrite - 
>> dNOCACHE -sOutputFile=Outlines-" & (PSName of FileInformation) & "  
>> -q -dbatch -dNOPAUSE " & (FName of FileInformation) & " -c quit")
>> 	
>> 	set Filetarget to ((MacFDirectory of FileInformation) &  
>> ":Outlines-" & (PSName of FileInformation))
>> 	-- display dialog Filetarget
>> 	
>> 	try
>> 		tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to activate
>> 		tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to open file Filetarget
>> 	end try
>> 	quit
>> end open
>>
>>
>> (* ==== Subroutine assemble file related information into record  
>> form.  ==== *)
>> on AssembleFileInfo(ThisFile)
>> 	set FileInfo to (info for ThisFile)
>> 	set FileRecord to {FName:(name of FileInfo) as string} as record
>> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {FExtension:(name extension of  
>> FileInfo as string)}
>> 	
>> 	set TString to ThisFile as string
>> 	set TString to (characters 1 through ((length of TString) - 1 -  
>> (length of (FName of FileRecord)))) of TString as string
>> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {MacFDirectory:TString}
>> 	set TString to ("\"" & (POSIX path of TString) & "\"")
>> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {FDirectory:TString}
>> 	set TString to (characters 1 through ((length of (FName of  
>> FileRecord)) - 1 - (length of FExtension of FileRecord))) of  
>> (FName of FileRecord) as string
>> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {FBaseName:TString}
>> 	set TString to (FBaseName of FileRecord) & ".ps"
>> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {PSName:TString}
>> 	return FileRecord
>> end AssembleFileInfo
>>
>>
>>
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