Comments on: Getting pdflatex to embed all fonts

By: Brian de Alwis

Brian de Alwis — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:48:05 +0000

Unfortunately this doesn’t cause fonts in embedded images to be themselves embedded. For example, PDFs generated from Gnuplot use Helvetica by default. But the camera-ready prep document from a conference named CPVR provides a Ghostscript processing command that does the trick:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER \
-dPDFX \
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \
-dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode \
-dAutoFilterGrayImages=false -dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode \
-sOutputFile=ieee.pdf \
-c ‘> setdistillerparams’ \
-f cvpr06.pdf \
-c quit

By: Zepu

Zepu — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:01:30 +0000

Hi Jurgen,

Regarding the -Pdownload35 option of dvips, the manual also says the option -Ppdf makes dvips try to “include Type 1 outline fonts”. I don’t know the relation between these two options.

By: Embedding fonts for IEEE

Embedding fonts for IEEE — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:22:33 +0000

[...] IEEE requires that your PDF files embed all fonts. Earlier, I told you how to get pdflatex LaTeX to embed all its fonts, but what if you are including figures that have hanging fonts and you are getting desperate? Luke Fletcher gives us the solution. [...]

By: Virgil

Virgil — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:37:49 +0000

Hi: Thanks for putting me on the right track.
In my Ubuntu Linux v 6.06 — Dapper (and LIKELY on debian Sarge also) the file updmap.cfg is automatically generated. It asks the user NOT to modify it, and look at the files in the directory /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ instead.
In that directory, the relevant file is: 00updmap.cfg
One can edit this file and set the option :
dvipsDownloadBase35 true
The other relevant options seem to have been set to “embed all” during installation:
pdftexDownloadBase14 true
dvipdfmDownloadBase14 true
The file contains plenty of comments explaining the various options. There are ways to overrule the file setting in specific cases.
AFTER MODIFYING THIS FILE one should run: update-updmap

I did the above with root (or sudo) privilege.

HtH.
Virgil

By: Faruque

Faruque — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:26:01 +0000

Hi Daniel,

It’s nice to solve a hard problem by a few linux commands. Yes, my problem of font embedding (+ subsetting) is solved in this way. But I had problems with colored image. So, I opened it in GIMP and saved it as grayscale. Then I got right behavior from pdflatex.

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:07:21 +0000

Hi Daniel,

thanks a lot for that! I was looking for an easy way to achieve embedding fonts. Yours worked without any problems!

PS: For creating PS-Documents with all fonts embedded, one can use the parameter -Pdownload35 for dvips.

By: Antonio Frisoli

Antonio Frisoli — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:52:58 +0000

Daniel, thank you very much for your clear summary, that works very well also under windows.
I would suggest to all authors that are used to work with latex to follow this procedure, rather than generating a ps file and then converting it to pdf.

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:50:20 +0000

Thank you for this summary, it was very helpful as I was preparing a submission to a journal that wanted fonts embedded in the PDF. A few months later, tetex was updated and I noticed that it broke. Rerunning updmap as root was sufficient to fix the problem, the configuration files were untouched.

By: Yuhong YAN

Yuhong YAN — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:45:25 +0000

You are really smart. On Windows it is similar as what you described here.