[XeTeX] Embed full font in PDF

[maxwell]

On 2016-07-22 15:10, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> ...
> The customer for whom I prepared a package file for a journal depends
> on files from authors and thus has no control over authors' computers.
> Finally he decided not to use DejaVu and other special fonts but only
> TeX Gyre fonts. Since then they have no problems. DejaVu fonts evolve
> too quickly and if you upgrade, the page breaks may change and even
> the total number of pages will be different. It really happend and
> they were unable to create the final PDF and time was running, I had
> to create it on my computer with "better" version of the DejaVu fonts.
> I do not want to dehonest the fonts, I just report my problems in the
> past. IMHO they are not production ready.

Thanks for the advice, I can't remember whether we tried TeX Gyre.  
Another alternative, which I have not tried yet, seems to be the Fira 
Sans font, which exists in both proportionally and mono-spaced versions:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans
I'm not sure what its code point coverage is, nor whether it handles 
stacked diacritics; we'll see.

    Mike Maxwell