Re: Missing fonts in .pdf file

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 06:45 PM 8/28/2002 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>Am Mittwoch, 28. August 2002 17:56 schrieb Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen:
> > Well, it took some time, but the prepress guy called,, and guess what: They
> > found a bug in their setup of acrobat, so I now have a copy proof of the
> > work, and it looks great!
> >
> > In the end only one page was wrong (only pictures, no fonts). This was made
> > using latex -> dvips -> Distiller. Since it was a standard distribution
> > dvips made all the fonts and included them as type3. That was too much for
> > the prepress guys. So I got the original latex document, and I converted
> > the thing to context. After that things were easy (as you all know).
>
>I (that is, the printshop) had some problems with my first book in ConTeXt;
>finally the error was with some PDF exported from Freehand 7; even distilled
>EPS caused RIP errors. At last I rendered the EPS in Photoshop and used pixel
>PDF from there...
>;-)

One way of testing graphic is to say

texexec --pdf --fig=c fig*.pdf

if the resulting file prints ok, and can be viewed in acrobat and 
ghostscript, things are probably ok

another options is to use one of those pdf/x validators

Hans
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