On 8/13/07, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com> 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