TexShop and embedded fonts

[Herbert Voss]

Am 29.01.20 um 23:38 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> First of all, the Type 3 font *is* embedded.  This can be confirmed
> with pdffonts.  Curiously Adobe Reader claims that it is not.
>
> It seems that your workflow is latex -> dvips -> ghostscript, as
> needed by pstricks.
>
>  From the PDF file I can neither determine the name of the font nor the
> name of the font file.  All I can say is that there is only one Type 3
> font in the PDF.  By default all TeX engines insert only a subset of
> each font containing only the glyphs you actually use.  Ghostscript
> does such optimizations too.
>
> The embedded Type 3 font in question contains only one glyph called
> "/Bullet".  When I de-compress the glyph description I see:
>
>    16300 0 m
>    16300 9002.24 9002.24 16300 0 16300 c
>    -9002.24 16300 -16300 9002.24 -16300 0 c
>    -16300 -9002.24 -9002.24 -16300 0 -16300 c
>    9002.24 -16300 16300 -9002.24 16300 0 c
>    f

That is what we call a "Softfont". it is generated on the fly as a Type 
3 font
and loaded into the print job, hence _always_ embedded and in the case
of PSTricks _always_ a vector font.

> The not embedded Helvetica shouldn't be a problem because the Adobe
> PDF spec sais that this font (among 13 others) have to be present in
> all PDF processors.  At least after the Euro symbol had to be added
> to these fonts in 2002 it turned out that this was a bad decision.
> Thus it's better to embed it as well.
>
> Herbert, I suppose that the workflow latex -> dvips -> gs is supported
> by a script which is part of pstricks.  If so, wouldn't it make sense
> to call gs with the option -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress ?

yes, that should be the default. But there is no script, it has to be 
done by
the user or by the Editor which runs the document.

Herbert