Bug#268957: pdflatex started embedding Palatino and Zapf Dingbats as pk-files

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 30.08.04 Juhapekka Tolvanen (juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi) wrote:

Hi,

> After upgrading pdflatex (or gsfonts) my pdflatex became crazy. It
> outputs gazillion lines like these:
> 
[Usage of Type3-Fonts]

> In addition filesize of my Master's Thesis skyrocketed:
> 
> % ls -lah gradu-20040824/sosl70c.screen.pdf gradu-20040815/sosl70c.screen.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 juhtolv  opis         401K 2004-08-15 07:01 gradu-20040815/sosl70c.screen.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 juhtolv  opis         680K 2004-08-24 13:15 gradu-20040824/sosl70c.screen.pdf
> 
Well, that occurs if Type3-Fonts are embedded.

> You can download those files here:
> 
> http://people.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/gradusave/
> 
> Why it started to behave so? I don't want to embed bitmaps to my
> PDF-files. I want those fonts embedded as Type 1 -files.
> 
Well, instead of posting complete files you should rather post
minimal examples, like:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{palatino}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

Could you feed that file to pdflatex and post the log file here?
What does "grep VARTEXMF /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf" say?

H. 
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