LaTeX Tips
-Posted: 2007-05-22
+Posted 2007-05-22.
Embedding fonts in PDFs
To check whether fonts are embedded, use pdffonts
, which is included with xpdf
. pdffonts
gives output that looks like this:
$ pdffonts paper.pdf diff --git a/feed.atom b/feed.atom index 6d8e2f5..824ce25 100644 --- a/feed.atom +++ b/feed.atom @@ -11,6 +11,36 @@https://www.mcmillen.dev/ ++ +LaTeX Tips +https://www.mcmillen.dev/blog/20070522-latex-tips.html + ++ LaTeX Tips + +Posted 2007-05-22.
+Embedding fonts in PDFs
+To check whether fonts are embedded, use
+pdffonts
, which is included withxpdf
.pdffonts
gives output that looks like this:+ + +$ pdffonts paper.pdf +name type emb sub uni object ID +------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- +FHQIOS+NimbusRomNo9L-Medi Type 1 yes yes no 6 0 +NEESMN+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu Type 1 yes yes no 9 0 +PJQNOS+CMSY10 Type 1 yes yes no 12 0 +You want
+emb
to beyes
for all fonts (and possiblysub
as well; also, all fonts should be Type 1, not Type 3). By default in Ubuntu, pdflatex should embed all fonts. Just in case, you can check/etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
, which should have a line like this:+
pdftexDownloadBase14 true
If it’s set to
+false
, change it totrue
, then runupdate-updmap
as root. Remake the PDF; if it still has non-embedded fonts, your figures are probably to blame. Check your PDF figures and make sure their fonts are embedded (using thepdffonts
command). For anything that doesn’t have embedded fonts, you can try the following magical invocation (all on one line):+
gs -dSAFER -dNOPLATFONTS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sOutputFile=figures/Mprime-new.pdf -f figures/Mprime.pdf
This creates a file
+figures/Mprime-new.pdf
that is hopefully identical to the input filefigures/Mprime.pdf
, except that the fonts are embedded. Runpdffonts
on it to check.Once all your figures are in PDF format, remake the paper again. Hopefully, all your fonts are now embedded — check again with
+ ]]> +pdffonts
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