[OS X TeX] pdf font coding problems

[George Gratzer]

OK, I created the .MacOSX file with the text file therein, installed  
your application and nothing happens.

My TeXShop is ``out of the box'' from the TUG site.

GG

On Dec 21, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote:

>
> On Dec 20, 2005, at 5:35 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.
>>>>
>
> Looking at Intaglio, I see that it has the same problem with LaTeX  
> fonts as Illustrator, as soon as one tries to edit the PDF (rather  
> than just placing it). In fact, Intaglio does a slightly inferior job.
> Therefore, it really seems useful to have a script that automates  
> the ghostscript incantation I posted earlier, for use with  
> Illustrator, Intaglio, or perhaps other programs of that type. Of  
> course, for those who are happy with the command line, all you'd  
> need is to save that one-line "gs ..." instruction as an executable  
> script somewhere.
>
> I did exactly that, but for the benefit of others I now wrapped the  
> whole thing using the Platypus tool (a very easy way to create  
> applications from shell scripts). So now I have an application that  
> accepts either PDF, Postscript or EPS by dropping a file onto it;  
> it then strips the fonts away and saves the result as a PDF file,  
> with the same base name but the ending "-nofont.pdf"  .
>
> I'm tentatively calling this application FontBegone... FontBegone  
> now also appears in the contextual menu of my PDF/EPS files.
> In contrast to the earlier instructions, I'm now converting the  
> result back to PDF because for longer documents that seemed better  
> to me. For one thing, Illustrator then starts up a dialog letting  
> you choose which page to edit.
> One additional difference to Gary's earlier applescript is that I  
> decided not to open Illustrator automatically after the conversion  
> process, because (as I said) Intaglio users would benefit from the  
> same fix.
>
> I have posted the application and installation instructions on my  
> web site,
> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/Illustrator.html#stripfonts
>
> Hope this is of use to someone,
>
> Jens
>
>
>
> Jens Uwe Nöckel
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Physics
> University of Oregon
> Eugene
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel
>
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