[OS X TeX] Creating a Sensible PDF Document

André Bellaïche abellaic at math.jussieu.fr
Wed Feb 7 13:49:17 EST 2007


Le 7 févr. 07 à 18:55, Bruno Voisin a écrit :

> Le 7 févr. 07 à 18:23, Philipp Mathey a écrit :
>
>> If I wanted to create a document with say xelatex that
>> can be read on some machine not running mac os x . say a system  
>> running Linux with xpdf,
>> would I have to choose the option to have all fonts embedded in  
>> the document
>> during the configuration phase even though this will create a much  
>> larger
>> document ? Is that the only way ?
>
> The option -E in Jonathan's suggestion
>
>   xelatex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E" myfile.tex
>
> tells precisely to always embed fonts. xdvipdfmx has apparently no  
> man page, but on the command line you can get:
>
>> $ xdvipdfmx
>> No dvi filename specified.
>> This is xdvipdfmx-0.3 by Jonathan Kew and Jin-Hwan Cho,
>>
>> -E              Always try to embed fonts, regardless of licensing  
>> flags.
>

Thanks for the information.

And what should you do to get the same behaviour if you use TeXShop ?  
(Same question for pdflatex or tex+ghostscript ?)

English language question : what do you mean by `sensible', applied  
to a pdf file ? What is the difference with `sensitive' ? In French,  
the two words are almost synonymous. For differential equations, you  
can say "sensible aux conditions initiales".

André Bellaïche


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