"Carlos E. R."
The thing is that the printer font "Times" should not be embedded, because that's one of the four fonts that the reader has implemented internally. And it wasn't in suse 10.1.
Not 4, but 14[1]: ,----[ Base 14 Fonts ] | 1. Times-Roman | 2. Times-Italic | 3. Times-Bold | 4. Times-BoldItalic | 5. Helvetica | 6. Helvetica-Oblique | 7. Helvetica-Bold | 8. Helvetica-BoldOblique | 9. Courier | 10. Courier-Oblique | 11. Courier-Bold | 12. Courier-BoldOblique | 13. Symbol | 14. ZapfDingbats `---- These are the fonts that are guaranteed to come with every Postscript printer originally are in the postscript specs. The are mapped to a set of cloned fonts (donated by URW) by Ghostscript for printing.
That's what the ps2pdf converter does: the font "Times New Roman" is embedded, but "Times" is not. And there is no degradation of the final result, all compliant PDF readers will render that font correctly: that's the standard. If the user wants an exact result, we will use another font. Otherwise, give use the choice!
I agreed that if one of these 14 fonts are used they should not be embedded. For all other fonts the subset used should be embedded. Charles Footnotes: [1] Please refer to section 7.6.2 of the PDF specs.