Re: Embedded fonts question

[David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>]

On Oct 25, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> David Wooten wrote:
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> A sad story: My context-typeset dissertation was printed/ 
>> distributed by
>> a POD publisher with aweful typographical errors (like all commas  
>> in the
>> main font being replaced by an ff ligature). Obviously the printer
>> didn't check their results. The file /reads/ fine both for me and the
>> publisher, but the printer let us know that the file is unprintable  
>> due
>> to problems with fonts not being embedded (why they originally  
>> printed
>> an "unprintable" file I'll never know).
>>
>> Now as far as I can tell, fonts /are /embedded. It was made with  
>> context
>> MKII, using hz and hanging punctuation, etc. When I look at the  
>> document
>> in Adobe Acrobat, and check the document/font details, it gives a  
>> list
>> of embedded fonts only.
>>
>> I'm not certain that the printer is in the right, but how can I  
>> tell? Is
>> it possible that the pdf was altered when transferred from me to the
>> publisher then to the printer? That compression of the pdf (zip)  
>> had any
>> impact? Any other possibilities? What do you need to know to offer
>> advice? ---I can send the file or a part of it if it is needed.
>
> Hi David,
>
> if the printer didn't alter the file and the fonts were embedded in  
> the
> original PDF document, they didn't vanished. The zip compression  
> doesn't
> alter those things (AFAIK).
>
> A way to check whether the fonts are embedded or not, you can download
> ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl2-dos6.zip (if you are using
> Windows) and run from the command-line
>
> 	pdffonts dissertation-filename.pdf
>
> Replace dissertation-filename.pdf with the actual file name and  
> pdffonts
> will display all font information.
>
> If this is too complicated for you, send me the original file in a
> private reply and I will post the results.
>
> I hope it helps,
>
>
> Pablo

Thanks, Pablo and Luigi,

I was able to run pdffonts and check my file, it agrees with adobe  
acrobat in saying that all fonts are embedded. So....I'm going to send  
the publisher the current file and see what happens. I'm only 98% sure  
that it's exactly the same as the original file I sent, so I am  
slightly hopeful that it will work out better.

Thanks again for your quick responses,
David
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