Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> writes:
> I suspect that dvipsDownloadBase35 is set to true
You are correct. I did this a long time ago and completely forgot;
apologies for forgetting a way in which I had poked things away from
defaults.
> As I said, dvipsDownloadBase35 is set to flase by default. If I am
> right and you have set it to true, why did you do so?
I have a habit of having to submit documents to people who require me to
embed all fonts: for instance, papers for IEEE, and reports to the
National Science Foundation. How sensible that requirement of theirs is,
I'm not sure.
How /necessary/ it is I don't know; perhaps I can get away with just
sending them PDF and using ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress or something.
(I don't want to assume too much of Adobe Reader since reading of later
versions not coming bundled with base fonts.) Still, I couldn't help but
notice that dvips' notion of `needed characters' seemed to be coming up
a bit short.
Mark
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