[Tioga-users] Embedded fonts

[Bill Paxton]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Roy Mayfield wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks for the background information.  I am far from informed about
> this matter, especially in comparison with you,  but after googling  
> the
> topic it seems that my situation is not an isolated case -- some
> publishers require all fonts to be embedded.  The argument for this
> seems to be based on the quality and uniformity of the standard fonts;
> here is a quote from the updmap.cfg man file: "Should pdftex download
> the base 14 pdf fonts? Since some configurations (ps / pdf tools /
> printers) use bad default fonts, it is safer to download the fonts."
>
> Your point about the pdf standard is a good one, and matters would be
> simplified considerably if the standard were applied consistently.
> However, a standard is only useful if everyone agrees to adopt it  
> and if
> it is implemented effectively and uniformly.  The last point seems  
> to be
> the rub in this case.
>
> As for educating publishers, I offer 2 quotes:
>
> 1) What is the difference between a publisher and a terrorist?  You  
> can
> negotiate with a terrorist.
>
> 2) Fatty and skinny went to bed.  Fatty rolled over and skinny was  
> dead.
>
> As an author in a technical field, I am most definitely skinny.
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Roy
>

Okay.   "I feel your pain" as the saying goes.  Perhaps there's still  
a way around this.
What do you do to get pdflatex to embed fonts?  Might it be possible  
to fake a use of
ZapfDingbats at the tex level to get the font embedded?  The  
background info here
is that Tioga PDFs for plots are built by pdflatex using a temporary  
PDF file for the graphics.
The graphics PDF is combined with text from TeX to produce the  
"final" PDF for the plot.
Any TeX text that shows up in the figure will need to have it's fonts  
embedded, so if
you can trick it into doing ZapfDingbats, we might have a workaround.

Let me know if that works!

Thanks,
Bill