[softwarelist] Re: Quercus, PDF problems

  • From: Dr Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:47:45 GMT

In message <470E5EA7.2080801@xxxxxxxxxxx>
          "M.Bellamy" <M.Bellamy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jeremy Roberts wrote:
>> In message <4f2eaf4dearkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>>           Richard Partridge <rkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <7eb4a22e4f.fjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Roberts
>>> <fjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.

Alan





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