From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/45097 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wooten Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Embedded fonts question Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:27:52 -0700 Message-ID: <54F3AE97-94F9-4F2A-8C27-F06CDE051982@trichotomic.net> References: <72FF8678-F9E1-4C5F-BBD2-0C9E9C029340@trichotomic.net> <49036307.8020106@web.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224988195 10245 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2008 02:29:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:29:55 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Oct 26 03:30:56 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtvP5-000105-BK for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:30:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8AE1FA4C; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:29:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31954-02-2; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:28:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEA41FB30; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:28:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816C71FB1D for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:28:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30939-02-5 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:28:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp-out1.berkeley.edu (smtp-out1.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C664E1FB30 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:27:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ip-69-27-187-189.pacificanet.com ([69.27.187.189] helo=[192.168.20.10]) by fe2.calmail with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (auth plain:wooten@berkeley.edu) (envelope-from ) id 1KtvMD-0000V1-9Y for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:27:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: <49036307.8020106@web.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:45097 Archived-At: On Oct 25, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Pablo Rodr=EDguez 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 ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________