Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 09/03/2007 12:20 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> Nelson A. de Oliveira:
> > Mumia W..:
> > > See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file.
> > The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here.
> > We don't have control over the PDF.
> > We want to change all machines running Windows to Linux, but the only 
> > missing thing is this barcode font on the PDFs. Windows displays them 
> > correctly while we couldn't make it works on Linux :-/
>
> I work at a printshop where I have tools to take a closer look at the 
> pdf. It appears that *none* of the fonts are included or embedded. 
> These are: Times New Roman, Times New Roman Bold, Arial, Arial Bold, 
> Arial Bold Italic, Bar25if.  So none of these fonts are guaranteed to 
> look like the original on your screen.
> Moreover, Bar25if could not be embedded due to "licensing limitations".
>
> This means that the pdf is simply a bad one, and not acceptable!  All 
> fonts should be included, so the pdf will display well on a system where 
> these fonts are not installed.  That is precisely the purpose of a pdf.
>
> What I could do is to turn all characters into outlines ('vectorize' 
> the characters) so no fonts are needed, and make a new pdf out of this. 
> It's a big one: 4.3 MB, but if you can use it, get it with this command:
>
>     wget http://home.kpnplanet.nl/~shiems@kpnplanet.nl/giap.pdf
>
> I suppose you could also do this with programs like pdfedit and 
> inkscape.

I've learned a lot more about fonts over the last couple of days than I 
ever wanted to know. And it's all to help someone with a problem that I 
don't have :-)

I was also able to create a version of giap.pdf with the barcode font 
rendered into the file. I hope it doesn't violate the distribution 
restrictions. I actually don't know if the font is rendered or embedded, 
but I do know what I did to create the new version of the file.

First here is the file: 
http://home.earthlink.net/~mumia.w.18.spam/giap3.pdf (272K)

I used ghostscript (gs-gpl). I set GS_FONTPATH to the directory in which 
Bar25if.ttf was located, and then I ran ghostscript with appropriate 
options:

export GS_FONTPATH=$PWD
gs -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=giap3.pdf giap.pdf
unset GS_FONTPATH

Sjored, please tell me if this was done appropriately (not violating the 
license). I was hoping to get ghostscript to "vectorize" the barcode 
glyphs, but I really don't know /what/ ghostscript did.

Xpdf, evince and kpdf all show the barcodes just fine 8-)