Re: Embedded PFA font not recognized by driverless printer

On Thursday, 19 February 2026 18:50:00 GMT Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Processing the dodgy PDF was the trick.  It also reduced the size from
> 200k to about 11k.  At least this is a work-around for the time being.
> Thanks for that, Deri!
> 
> - Nate

I suspect, given that reducing the pdf size with ps2pdf made the pdf 
"printable", the problem was insufficient memory on the printer for the whole 
font to be embedded. Particularly as the "dodgy" pdf viewed with no problems 
using acrobat in windows, which usually barfs if there is anything non-
conformant with the pdf.

The attached pdf has been produced using current groff (which includes the 
font reduction subsetting). Please can you test with your printer. There is 
still one difference, ps2pdf embeds the fonts as type 1c whereas gropdf embeds 
as type 1 (both are permitted by the pdf standard), so if this pdf still fails 
to print properly, it would indicate the printer only supports type 1c, which 
would be naughty.

Cheers 

Deri