Hi, Hilmar wrote: > 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. I didn't know a2ping, thanks for mentioning it. Its --gsextra options probably should do what I need; at least if it ran properly, which it didn't on the two machines I tried on. It produced an "ESP Ghostscript 815.03: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1", and although there was a PDF file afterwards, it had no fonts embedded. But that's another topic ... Frank wrote: > [Heiko] 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. Of course he is right, but in order to use such a generic option one has to know what to give to it. And because embedding fonts is something that is probably often needed, and by users that are not gs experts, I think an extra option is worthwhile. Of course, adding the necessary --pass-to-gs options to the man page would do as well. > He also mentioned that one can use an environment variable > export GS_OPTIONS=-dEmbedAllFonts=true I didn't know about GS_OPTIONS either, thanks for passing it on. However, btw., from my experience, -dEmbedAllFonts=true is not enough, I needed -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer as well. > 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). Yes, documenting --gsextra as well as how to use it to embed fonts would be fine. Regards, Daniel
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