[OS X TeX] zapf dingbats

David Arnold dwarnold45 at suddenlink.net
Sat Mar 13 12:56:05 EST 2010


Michael,

Can you suggest a link? And can you help with where and how to install?

D.

On Mar 13, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

> 
> On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:02 PM, David Arnold wrote:
> 
>> Don, Michael,
>> 
>> Here is a simple document that produces the problem.
>> 
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage[
>>    web=designiv,
>>    exerquiz
>> ]{aeb_pro}
>> \begin{document}
>> Hello.
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> I am using Donald Story's acrotex and acrotex pro packages:
>> 
>> acrotex_pack.zip
>> 
>> aebpro_pack.zip
>> 
>> When I latex and dvips, then drop the ps file on Distiller, I get this error:
>> 
>> Acrobat Distiller 9.3.0
>> Started: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM
>> Adobe PostScript software version: 3018.101
>> CID support library initialization completed.
>> 
>> Distilling: junk.ps
>> Start Time: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM
>> Source: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/story/junk.ps
>> Destination: /Users/darnold/Documents/PreAlgText/trunk/story/junk.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 ****
> 
> It appears that ZapfDingbats is hard-coded into the acrotex package as part of the pdfmark code. Open the resulting ps file in a text editor and search for ZapfDingbats. I'd say the quickest solution is to purchase the Adobe ZapfDingbats Postscript font (about $26 online.) This is not a LaTeX font issue.
> 
> Michael
> 
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