Re: A Hello and a Question about Fonts

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Michael Piotrowski <address@hidden> writes:

> The fonts need not be embedded if the PostScript interpreter has access
> to them.  Thus, if you're producing PDF through Ghostscript, you only
> need to make sure that Ghostscript finds the fonts, e.g., via
> GS_FONTPATH if the fonts in question are stored in a location not in its
> default search path (see the output of "gs -h" and the Ghostscript
> documentation for details.)

Also, running "ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress foo.ps" forces Ghostscript
to embed fonts in the resulting PDF file.  Whether fonts are embedded in
the PDF can be checked using the `pdffonts' program from Xpdf.

Thanks,
Ludovic.