Bug#178717: tetex-bin: pdftex/pdflatex fails to subset embedded CJK TrueType font

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Dear Chung-chieh,

over a year ago you reported the following bug to the Debian BTS:

Chung-chieh Shan <ken@digitas.harvard.edu> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20021025-8
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> At http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ccshan/debbugs/pdflatex/ is a document
> containing some CJK characters.  The output of pdflatex when run on
> "bug.tex" is the PDF file "bug.pdf".  This PDF file contains the
> following fonts, as listed by the "pdffonts" command:
>
> name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
> UBZQKZ+URWPalladioL-Roma             Type 1       yes yes no       6  0
> bsmi05                               TrueType     yes no  no       9  0
> bsmi01                               TrueType     yes no  no      12  0
> bsmi03                               TrueType     yes no  no      15  0

I have tried to test whether the new pdflatex that will be included in
the next tetex relase still shows this behavior. However, on my test
install it doesn't even use the TrueType fonts. Do you have any idea
what I need to configure? If I run your test file over it, I get:

$ pdffonts /sid/home/frank/178717.pdf 
name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
JZJEXZ+URWPalladioL-Roma             Type 1       yes yes no       6  0
[none]                               Type 3       yes no  no       7  0
[none]                               Type 3       yes no  no       8  0
[none]                               Type 3       yes no  no       9  0

This might have to do with the fact that the new upstream version isn't
yet properly debianized, however. 

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie