Re: Problem with *not* embedding fonts with latest texlive from sid
Hi Rogério,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:00 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Well, with that aside, I am trying to produce PS/PDF documents that
> don't embed their fonts. For this purpose, I am trying to stick with
> Times, which is on the Base14 font set.
I assume you know tht even AR does no longer come with the Base14
fonts. Hence the reader will be left with whatever the OS has to
offer.
> Unfortunately, this is what I am getting on my system (which is a
> completely vanilla texlive installation):
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> rbrito@chagas:~$ cat times.tex
> \font\somefont=ptmr
> \somefont ABCDEFGHIJK T ?xy ffi
> \bye
> rbrito@chagas:~$ tex times
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> (./times.tex [1] )
> Output written on times.dvi (1 page, 276 bytes).
> Transcript written on times.log.
> rbrito@chagas:~$ dvips times
> This is dvips(k) 5.96.1 Copyright 2007 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2009.03.30:1145' -> times.ps
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/tex.pro>
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc>
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/texps.pro>.
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>[1]
> rbrito@chagas:~$ ps2pdf times.ps
> rbrito@chagas:~$ pdffonts times.pdf
> name type emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> AQAEUC+CMR10 Type 1C yes yes no 9 0
> Times-Roman Type 1 no no no 8 0
> rbrito@chagas:~$
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Actually, the only change that I know of from a vanilla texlive install
> is that I created a file named /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00local.cfg whose
> contents are only comments and:
>
> dvipsDownloadBase35 false
> pdftexDownloadBase14 false
> dvipdfmDownloadBase14 false
For dvips this is still the default setting. For pdftex I would use
\pdfmapfile{pdftex_dl14.map}
(untested) either in the document or on the commandline. That way one
is more flexible from my point of view.
> I don't know why CMR10 is being embedded, as my tiny tex document listed
> above doesn't use any of the Computer Modern family. Also, I saw that
> the contents of "times.ps" *does* indeed contain the part respective to
> CMR10.
I would guess that the page number on the bottom of the page uses
CMR10. Do you actually want to use palin TeX, or was this just for
experiment?
> Is there any way to avoid it? I do need to strip everything here to a
> bare minimum (yes, I do know that Adobe doesn't recommend that).
Use a different Format or alter the relevant settigns from plain.tex
in your document.
cheerio
ralf
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