On 8/13/07, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Perhaps because Liberation is a "non-standard" font, font exporters > > > assume that recipients won't have it and thus export to graphics in > > > order to guarantee formatting is preserved. > > > > It springs to mind that perhaps a PDF file, or the originating > > Postscript file used to make a PDF file, can embed certain *types* of > > fonts as fonts (e.g. Postscript fonts), but text using other types might > > have to be incorporated as pre-rendered graphics. Rather than it being > > certain fonts, in themselves. > > Liberation Fonts can be embedded as copyable text in PDF files in F7. > But it seems that the F7 mechanism of printing to a PS file is not > right, as when printing to a PS from www.gmail,com, one gets with > ps2pdf a PDF file with the following fonts: > > $ pdffonts gmail.pdf > name type emb sub uni object ID > ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- > WQDACH+Liberation_Sans.Bold.0.0.10b6c.9a62.Set0 Type 1C yes yes > no 13 0 > TAMSTW+Liberation_Sans.Regular.0.0.1b044.b87a.Set0 Type 1C yes > yes no 11 0 > GBGOAU+Nimbus_Roman_No9_L.Regular.0.0.23ec4.b59e.Set0 Type 1C yes > yes no 8 0 > $ > > However, if one goes to OpenOffice to create a document only with > Libeartion Fonts and then one exports the document to PDF, one gets a > PDF with *copyable* text and with the Liberation Fonts embedded: > > $ pdffonts ooo.pdf > name type emb sub uni object ID > ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- > BAAAAA+LiberationSans TrueType yes yes yes 14 0 > CAAAAA+LiberationSans-Bold TrueType yes yes yes 9 0 > $ In addition, I would like to report that inside the PS file I see the same fonts, i.e., I see * Liberation_Sans.Bold.0.0.10b6c.9a62.Set0 * Liberation_Sans.Regular.0.0.1b044.b87a.Set0 * Nimbus_Roman_No9_L.Regular.0.0.23ec4.b59e.Set0 This means that F7 was not able of indicating > BAAAAA+LiberationSans TrueType yes yes yes 14 0 > CAAAAA+LiberationSans-Bold TrueType yes yes yes 9 0 but OpenOffice was. I am suspecting that something is wrong with the way F7 prints to a PS file, not indicating in the PS file the correct fonts. Paul
