Re: [SLUG] PDF fonts - thanks

[Angus Lees]

At Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:49:00 -0700 (PDT), Mark A. Bell wrote:
 Being a beginner at LaTeX, I produced my document using LyX (on top of
 Debian Unstable). I just exported the file as a PDF. The 'default'
 font that Lyx uses is apparently a Type 3 font. Pdffonts reveals:
 
 nametype emb sub uni object ID
 ---  --- --- --- -
 [none]  Type 3   no  no  no   9  0

weird. not only was there no font name, but it wasn't embedded either
(emb).  Is there any way of getting a log or something from lyx that
might show what it does exactly when exporting as PDF?

alternatively, try exporting as LaTeX source and running latex over
it yourself.  If that still produces the above, send me the LaTeX
source and I should be able to tell you what's happening.

(If it produces something that *does* correctly embed the fonts, then
you've found a way to work around the problem)

 I also wrote a quick test file using Emacs without specifying any
 fonts or packages. I ran LaTeX and dvipdf, and tried out the file in
 Acrobat. It came out perfectly with Times Type 1 fonts. Pdffonts
 shows:
 
 nametype emb sub uni object ID
 ---  --- --- --- -
 VCWIIB+CMR17Type 1C  yes yes no  10  0
 XACQQL+CMR12~f  Type 1C  yes yes no  16  0
 GGLQBJ+CMR12Type 1C  yes yes no  13  0
 
 I presume that these are the 'Computer Modern' fonts mentioned in the
 TeX FAQ [http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-type3]
 and that they are infact the default for my Debian TeTeX
 installation.

yes, thats Computer Modern (Roman) in a few different sizes.


the random font name prefix on these and your Times-Roman example is a
workaround for another acrobat bug, btw.

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Re: [SLUG] PDF fonts - thanks

[Mark A. Bell]

Hi Angus,

  nametype emb sub uni object ID
  ---  --- --- --- -
  [none]  Type 3   no  no  no   9  0
 
 weird. not only was there no font name, but it wasn't embedded either
 (emb).  Is there any way of getting a log or something from lyx
 that might show what it does exactly when exporting as PDF?

I'm not sure - I don't know LyX that well yet. It has a couple of
different options for exporting PDF also, but they didn't seem to make
a difference until I changed the document font to Times.

 alternatively, try exporting as LaTeX source and running latex over
 it yourself.  

Yes, that's a good solution. One reason why I use LyX is so I can look
at the output and see how it does things with LaTeX. Changing the LyX
document font to Times seems to work well also.

  nametype emb sub uni object ID
  ---  --- --- --- -
  VCWIIB+CMR17Type 1C  yes yes no  10  0
  XACQQL+CMR12~f  Type 1C  yes yes no  16  0
  GGLQBJ+CMR12Type 1C  yes yes no  13  0
  
 yes, thats Computer Modern (Roman) in a few different sizes.

That's good to know. Eventually I'd like to just write LaTeX in Emacs
and just use LyX when I'm stuck or in a hurry. Thanks kindly for your
help, and thanks for the 'Doc-Fest' day last year that got me
interested in LaTeX in the first place.



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