[OS X TeX] zapf dingbats

[Michael Sharpe]

On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:09 PM, David Arnold wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> Thanks for trying, but that did not work.
> 
> Dragging the ps file onto Distiller (macbook), I still get:
> 
> Acrobat Distiller 9.3.0
> Started: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM
> Adobe PostScript software version: 3018.101
> CID support library initialization completed.
> 
> Distilling: c1s1ex1_1.ps
> Start Time: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM
> Source: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/chapter1/youtryit/c1s1ex1_1.ps
> Destination: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/chapter1/youtryit/c1s1ex1_1.pdf
> Adobe PDF Settings: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/Standard.joboptions
> %%[ Warning: ZapfDingbats not found, using Font Substitution. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
> Distill Time: 1 seconds (00:00:01)
> **** End of Job ****
> 
> Could it be that the fonts are not available in the Mactex Texlive 2009 distribution.  On the mac, ZapfDingbats.ttf is available in /System/Library/Fonts.
> 
> And this evidence:
> 
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro-2:temp darnold$ locate pzdr | grep pfb
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro-2:temp darnold$ 
> 
> David.
> 

What package are you using to load ZapfDingbats? TeXLive 2009 comes with the URW clone of ZapfDingbats, whose LaTeX name is uzdr and whose PostScript name is Dingbats. You should be able to trace what is being loaded behind the scenes by examining your log.

Michael