Re: help with publishing requested

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:

> Problem: Have reached the point of publishing a book written in LaTeX. Have
> 	 generated the pdf file with pdflatex which looks fine on my system
> 	 and prints fine from my laser printer. On the publisher system it
> 	 looks fine on screen (acrobat reader 5.0 and 6.0) but on the
> 	 print-ready version a number of fonts (math fonts) are printed on
> 	 top of one another, framed boxed have lines that cross text and
> 	 these defects are seen through every page.
>
> 	 Publisher cannot handle this and the only solution he recommends is
> 	 to rewrite the book in Word.

This is obviously a problem with the printer's system (looks good on 
screen but doesn't print right) so tell them to fix it or get yourself a 
new printer (I assume you mean "printer" not publisher). Any printer who 
recommends you use Word should be avoided; my printer told me to send them 
anything BUT Word!

You could try generating the PDF with "ps2pdf13" and maybe ps2pdf12.

You could also have the films done by a prepress shop that knows Latex; I 
could suggest a name.

Another thing to try would be install GSView on the printer's system and 
see if they can correctly print out a PS version.

good luck!

Judah

>
> 	 I do not want to do this.
>
> Steps I took to solve problem: ------------------------------
>
> A google search indicates that the problem may be that I do not have all
> fonts embedded in the pdf doc and the publisher system may substitute other
> inappropriate fonts.  I have xpdf on my system and I run pdffonts on the pdf
> doc. A long list of fonts appear and most of them have settings emb=yes,
> sub=yes, uni=no which I assume means that they are embedded in the document.
>
> The following however have settings
>
> name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
> Helvetica-BoldOblique                Type 1C      yes no  no     177  0
> NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic          Type 1C      yes no  no     178  0
> Helvetica-Bold                       Type 1C      yes no  no     193  0
> Times-Roman                          Type 1C      yes no  no     206  0
> Times-Italic                         Type 1C      yes no  no     947  0
> Helvetica-Bold                       Type 1C      yes no  no    4100  0
> [none]                               Type 3       yes no  no    4148  0
> [none]                               Type 3       yes no  no    4164  0
> Helvetica-BoldOblique                Type 1C      yes no  no    4165  0
> [none]                               Type 3       yes no  no    4188  0
> [none]                               Type 3       yes no  no    4252  0
> [none]                               Type 3       yes no  no    4274  0
>
> which I assume means they are not embedded in the document.
>
> Looking into the updmap.cfg I see that the option some people recommend
>
> 	pdftexDownloadBase14 true
>
> is already set to true. I also set (looks to have something to do with
> embedding fonts)
>
>   dvipsDownloadBase35 true
>
> run updmap and texhash but see nothing different in the resulting pdf doc.
>
> Request for help:
> -----------------
>
> I assume people who have published have encountered similar problems. Am I
> on the right track thinking that I have to embed all fonts? How do I do
> this with the pdflatex that comes with tetex-3.0? Are there other options
> that I have to turn on in the updmap.cfg file? Some command-line switches
> that I could pass to pdflatex? Some other route that I should take in
> preparing the pdf doc? I also gave the publisher a postscript file that was
> produced by dvips (with no command line switches) and his distiller errored
> out on unknown fonts that could not be found or substituted.
>
> Well, I have described my problem as well as I could. I switched to LaTeX
> years ago since I use plenty of math in my work and have no desire
> whatsoever to go to Word if I can avoid it :)
>
> I hope that someone in the list can give me some advice. Did I say I was
> desperate?
>
> TIA
>
> Tasos Drosos
>
>