Re: Missing fonts in .pdf file

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:49 PM 8/21/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> > From: Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen <gilbert@panter.soci.aau.dk>
>
> > The .pdf file is constructed from seperate .pdf documents. These documents
> > came from several universities and were created using a lot of different
> > tools. I am using context merely as a page-impositioner here.
>
>What do you mean by a page-impositioner? I have tried to use texexec to
>re-order pages in a document where I do not have all of the fonts. The
>result is similar to what you have experienced. It seems to me that one
>needed all of the original fonts to be present.
>
>If you reorder and combine pages using Acrobat then Acrobat ensures the
>fonts are put together in the final document (possibly with duplicates).

well, pdftex can combine pdf files rather well, just make sure that all 
files have the resources embedded; for the fonts that pdftex knows (from 
the map file) it will try to mak eeffective subsets

Hans

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