Bug#411651: epstopdf: embedding all fonts (small patch)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 20.02.07 Daniel Kraft (da_kraft@web.de) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> The following small patch adds an option --embed to epstopdf which
>> makes epstopdf embed all fonts into the generated PDF.
>> 
> Frank has forwarded your request to Heiko, the maintainer of epstopdf.
> Did you consider do use a2ping, the successor of epstopdf? It has an
> option "--gsextra=      extra arg to gs", which might do, what you
> want.

Thanks for the news - I didn't even know that a2ping is a replacement
for epstopdf.  

Meanwhile, Heiko answered me in private (and german) that he doesn't
have time to maintain epstopdf any more.  Moreover, he suggested exactly
what has been implemented in a2ping, namely a generic "--pass-to-gs"
option -- he said there are too many useful gs options to add to a tool
one individual option for each. 

He also mentioned that one can use an environment variable

export GS_OPTIONS=-dEmbedAllFonts=true
epstopdf ...

On the other hand, I rather think that embedding fonts should be the
default.  Even in a2ping (plus, it should be documented; it's only in
the changelog at the bottom of the manpage).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)