[softwarelist] Re: Unwanted font definitions

  • From: Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:33:05 +0200

In message <4faf0642b8asgard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Keith Hopper <asgard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>      I realise that I should have known this before - but didn't. When the
> only font referred to in a document is NOT Trinity, OvnPro puts out a font
> list (in a DDL file and a Postscript file anyway) including Trinity
> Medium/Bold/Italic.

>      I only discovered this when a document wouldn't convert to PDF with
> PDFmaker (a Ghostscript error). Although the Postscript printed happily and
> converted with other converters PDFmaker objected. I tracked this down to
> the presence of Trinity Italic Smallcaps (with Rcomp Andrew's help) which
> was the 'default' italic for Trinity - which wasn't used in the document at
> all and was not referrred to in any style or any effect!

While it may be an annoyance that the font is considered used even 
though it is not, why should that cause any problems with PDF 
generation? What error does Ghostscript display?

Martin
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