Re: Embedded PFA font not recognized by driverless printer

* On 2026 19 Feb 14:57 -0600, Deri wrote:
> 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.

I believe this printer has 512MB of RAM.

I've not seen the printer report any errors.  Just for completeness I've
attached an image of the font it used instead.

> 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.

It printed just fine.

Thank you very much, Deri.  Your help is immensely appreciated.

- Nate

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