[lug] LaTeX and distilling to PDF

[J. Wayde Allen]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Ronald Kumon wrote:

> When you look at your PDF document in Acrobat Reader and do "File:Document
> Info:Fonts", do you see listings like:
> 
> Original Font   Type     Encoding   Used Font        Type
> CMR10           Type 1   Custom     Embedded Subset  Type 1
> CMSL12          Type 1   Custom     Embedded Subset  Type 1, etc.

I get:

  A		Type 3 Custom  A		Type 3
  B		Type 3 Custom  B		Type 3

> Modern set used most often under LaTeX.)  If you don't see the embedded
> Type 1 fonts, then most likely the PDF contains the bitmapped versions 
> of the fonts, not the Type 1 fonts.

I'd guess that I'm getting bitmaped fonts.  I've never looked into the
different font types though so don't know what the difference is between
Type 1 or Type 3 is?

> I know older versions of Ghostscript would *only* bitmap
> the fonts, and that is why I switched over to pstill.

Makes sense, that was my first feeling about this.

> (One would expect Adobe Distiller to correctly the fonts though.)

Yes, that was the reason I was prompted to ask the question.  When I saw
this a couple weeks ago using ps2pdf I figured it was just the program and
that using the acrobat software would fix things.  This morning it
suddenly became apparent that the problem runs deeper than that.

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)