On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
Problem: Have reached the point of publishing a book written in LaTeX. Have
generated the pdf file with pdflatex which looks fine on my system
and prints fine from my laser printer. On the publisher system it
looks fine on screen (acrobat reader 5.0 and 6.0) but on the
print-ready version a number of fonts (math fonts) are printed on
top of one another, framed boxed have lines that cross text and
these defects are seen through every page.
Publisher cannot handle this and the only solution he recommends is
to rewrite the book in Word.
This is obviously a problem with the printer's system (looks good on
screen but doesn't print right) so tell them to fix it or get yourself a
new printer (I assume you mean "printer" not publisher). Any printer who
recommends you use Word should be avoided; my printer told me to send them
anything BUT Word!
You could try generating the PDF with "ps2pdf13" and maybe ps2pdf12.
You could also have the films done by a prepress shop that knows Latex; I
could suggest a name.
Another thing to try would be install GSView on the printer's system and
see if they can correctly print out a PS version.
good luck!
Judah
I do not want to do this.
Steps I took to solve problem: ------------------------------
A google search indicates that the problem may be that I do not have all
fonts embedded in the pdf doc and the publisher system may substitute other
inappropriate fonts. I have xpdf on my system and I run pdffonts on the pdf
doc. A long list of fonts appear and most of them have settings emb=yes,
sub=yes, uni=no which I assume means that they are embedded in the document.
The following however have settings
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
Helvetica-BoldOblique Type 1C yes no no 177 0
NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic Type 1C yes no no 178 0
Helvetica-Bold Type 1C yes no no 193 0
Times-Roman Type 1C yes no no 206 0
Times-Italic Type 1C yes no no 947 0
Helvetica-Bold Type 1C yes no no 4100 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 4148 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 4164 0
Helvetica-BoldOblique Type 1C yes no no 4165 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 4188 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 4252 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 4274 0
which I assume means they are not embedded in the document.
Looking into the updmap.cfg I see that the option some people recommend
pdftexDownloadBase14 true
is already set to true. I also set (looks to have something to do with
embedding fonts)
dvipsDownloadBase35 true
run updmap and texhash but see nothing different in the resulting pdf doc.
Request for help:
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I assume people who have published have encountered similar problems. Am I
on the right track thinking that I have to embed all fonts? How do I do
this with the pdflatex that comes with tetex-3.0? Are there other options
that I have to turn on in the updmap.cfg file? Some command-line switches
that I could pass to pdflatex? Some other route that I should take in
preparing the pdf doc? I also gave the publisher a postscript file that was
produced by dvips (with no command line switches) and his distiller errored
out on unknown fonts that could not be found or substituted.
Well, I have described my problem as well as I could. I switched to LaTeX
years ago since I use plenty of math in my work and have no desire
whatsoever to go to Word if I can avoid it :)
I hope that someone in the list can give me some advice. Did I say I was
desperate?
TIA
Tasos Drosos
