On Thursday, 7 July 2022 16:47:08 BST Robert Goulding wrote: > (What I don't understand is how I've been compiling pdfs > from troff documents with no difficulties using my installed groff, even > though the download file was pointing at non-existent fonts?) >
If your troff documents are only using the base pdf fonts which don't need to be embedded within the pdf, since the fonts are supplied by the viewer instead. When the groff man pages are created as a volume Branden has included the -P-e flag which tells gropdf to embed all fonts regardless, and since the grops and gropdf man pages have examples of all fonts they all need to be specified correctly in the download file for it to succeed. Cheers Deri
