[tex-live] font embedding: PDF/A checkers complain about missing glyphs from marvosym

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 09:31:35 CEST 2014


Hi,

I'm probably writing to the wrong mailing list, but I need a hint
where it would be best to ask.

I just received the following email and a link to:
    http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/198514/unable-to-generate-pdf-a-with-marvosym-package/198549

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Dennis Schieferdecker wrote:
>
> I am currently trying to use the marvosym package, or more specifically the
> \Libra symbol to generate a PDF file that is compliant with the PDF/A-1b
> standard. Unfortunately, this doesn't work. PDF/A checkers say that some
> glyphs are missing in the embedded font and that the width information of
> the outputted glyphs are inconsistent.
> I am not sure how to continue from here.
>
> A minimal working example would be:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{marvosym}
> \begin{document}
> \Libra
> \end{document}

I'm able to reproduce the problem, also with ConTeXt/pdfTeX.

The document generated with ConTeXt/LuaTeX which uses the ttf font is
OK. This is a ConTeXt equivalent of the above document:

\usesymbols[mvs]
\starttext
\symbol[zodiac][Libra]
\stoptext

I tried to switch to the ttf file in pdftex.map, but I'm not sure how
to properly do that. Maybe I need to write the enc file first?

!pdfTeX error: pdftex (file marvosym.ttf): Subset TrueType must be a reencoded
or a subfont
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

I'm not sure if this is an issue with the font packaging, with pdfTeX
or something else. The PDF certainly looks fine, it's just the
Acrobat's PDF/A checker that's complaining.

Thank you,
    Mojca


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