Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2430 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2008-04-21 at 06:28 -0400, Charles philip Chan wrote:

> "Carlos E. R." <>  writes:
>
> > 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]:

Ah, I'm saving this list ;-)

I think they are still 4 fonts, with the bold and italic variations. Let's 
check:

> ,----[ Base 14 Fonts ]
> | 1. Times-Roman
> | 2. Times-Italic
> | 3. Times-Bold
> | 4. Times-BoldItalic

That's "Times"

> | 5. Helvetica
> | 6. Helvetica-Oblique
> | 7. Helvetica-Bold
> | 8. Helvetica-BoldOblique

That's "Helvetica".


> | 9. Courier
> | 10. Courier-Oblique
> | 11. Courier-Bold
> | 12. Courier-BoldOblique

That's "Courier". We have three fonts.

> | 13. Symbol
> | 14. ZapfDingbats

Ah... the #14 I didn't know. So, that's 3 fonts with their variations, and 
two more.


> 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.

Ah! The URW fonts.

> > 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.

Exactly. This is what I reported in Bugzilla 260193 a year ago and has not 
been corrected yet.

Do you know if there is someway to remove the embedded font from a pdf 
file and map the font?

> Footnotes:
> [1]  Please refer to  section 7.6.2 of the PDF specs.

Which I don't have, but I read once. So I'm saving your list above ;-)

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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