[softwarelist] Re: Quercus, PDF problems

Dr Alan Leighton wrote:

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          "M.Bellamy" <M.Bellamy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Jeremy Roberts wrote:

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          Richard Partridge <rkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In article <7eb4a22e4f.fjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Roberts
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Pls excuse my endless ignorance... I don't follow how your advice
"Generate PostScript under RISC OS ensuring that ALL fonts are
embedded" applies to the PostScript generation in the first place.
.......

This is a bit sneaky, I think. As supplied, !Printers will substitute
some RISC OS font names with equivalent Postscript names when
printing to Postscript. The Acorn fonts will not then be embedded
when you make a PDF, the assumption being that the printer will have
the fonts already.

The application !FontPrint, which you should find in the same
directory as !Printers, controls which fonts this applies to; they're
listed in its display. You just just select them all via the menu,
and delete them, leaving an empty window.

Hope this helps.

Richard Partridge.

Many thanks, David and Richard, for pointing me to that: ah yes -
indeed - a dark corner now has a little light shone on it!!

Certainly will help!



It's also essential for sending things to lulu.com if you want to
publish things that way. I had endless trouble with Ghostscript and
PDFprinter on a PC failing to embed all the fonts, but it worked first
time with OvationPro to Postscript file and then ps2pdf.


How do you do it Matt? I haven't a clue.


Going from memory, because I'm not in front of RISC OS at the moment...
Make a copy of the PoScript2 file found in the Printers directory and call it something else. Load !FontPrint, choose this new printer definition file and remove all the font mappings. Load !Printers and change to your new one and also change the connection to "file" and drag the Postscript icon to the directory you want to save your printout.
Load OPro, again choose your new virtual printer and then print your file (to disc). Load ps2pdf and drag the printed Postscript file onto it. When the save window pops up, just drag to save the pdf. You can probably simplify further using Steve Fryatt's !PrintPDF, but I haven't tried it yet. You can then upload the pdf to lulu's website. They have limited page sizes so you may need to change the page size in OPro and then create a matching new page size in your virtual printer. 

Matt

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