[XeTeX] how do I embed fonts into a a xelatex generated pdf?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/5/3 Adam Russell <arussell at cs.uml.edu>:
> On 5/3/12 1:10 PM, xetex-request at tug.org wrote:
>>>
pdf2ps may damage the document, I would rather suggest a different
way. Generate the figures by gnuplot as EPS and then run epstopdf to
convert them to PDF and include PDF. Epstopdf will embed the font (I
have just tried to be sure).

>>> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:08:00 +0200
>>> From: Zdenek Wagner<zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
>>> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms<xetex at tug.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] how do I embed fonts into a a xelatex generated
>>>        pdf?
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>>>
>>> Short answer: you have to buy Helvetica.
>>>
>>> Long answer: There are basic 15 PS fonts and basic 35 PDF fonts that
>>> must be according to the specification available everywhere. However,
>>> this requirement is broken even in Adobe products (the author of the
>>> specification) and it is quite common to see different versions of
>>> Times and Helvetica with different metrics (it cost me some money and
>>> damaged output to discover this crucial problem). It is therefore
>>> good (and required by DTP studios and printer houses) to embed all
>>> fonts. These 35 basic fonts are commercial and thus cannot be
>>> distributed with TeX. There are free replacements (from URW and other
>>> vendors). Now you have two options:
>>>
>>> 1. Embed the replacement fonts possibly losing quality
>>> 2. Do not embed the font and hope that the user has either the
>>> commercial font or a replacement font that will not be worse.
>>>
>>> Of course option 1 is better unless you know that the user has the
>>> commercial font with exactly the same metrics as you. You have to look
>>> into the manual of your TeX distribution how to instruct it to embed
>>> all fonts (it is done by updmap-sys in TeX Live). If you want to have
>>> fonts with better quality, you can consider using TeX Gyre Heros
>>> instead of Helvetica.
>>>
>>> Still one problem remains. You may include images created by tools as
>>> gnuplot or inkscape that insert texts in Helvetica but do not embed
>>> the font. It will need some tweaking depending on the tool.
>>
>> Ah! That is exactly my problem I now realize. My paper in and of itself
>> does not use Helvetica but I am using
>> gnuplot to generate figures. So, I guess I am going with (2). The use of
>> Helvetica in the figures is so
>> small that hopefully any difference will be so small as to be
>> undetectable. I am willing to bet that Helvetica is a
>> common enough font and gnuplot is a common enough tool that this
>> shouldn't be an issue. We'll see...
>> And also, just for the record, I found these directions on embedding
>> fonts to be very clear:
>> http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/public_files/embeded_fonts.php
>> Thank you very much for the help!
>
> One final thing. I just discovered a clever workaround.
> For the entire document run pdf2ps
> pdf2ps document.pdf
> and the run this command on the ps file
> ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress document.ps
> This seems to work for embedding the fonts without having to regenerate
> anything!
>
>
>
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