Re: help with publishing requested

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:05:55PM +0300, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> 
> System: tetex-3.0 on a Linux system
> 
> 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.
> 
> 	 I do not want to do this.

Hi,

This is probably not a specifically teTeX issue (despite initial
appearances), and so a more appropriate place for discussing this
problem would be the newsgroups comp.text.tex and/or comp.text.pdf.
However:

> 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.

On the contrary, the 'yes' under 'emb' indicates that all of these fonts
are embedded---the 'no' under 'sub' simply means that they don't form a
subset (which means that the whole font is embedded).

In any case, I doubt that the base 14 fonts are causing the problem,
given that you mention that the problem arises with the math fonts. 
Which math fonts are you using? The standard CM fonts? And are they
embedded in the PDF file as Type 1 fonts? All of the Type 3 fonts that
you have embedded (see above) make me a little suspicious---do you know
what they are? For best results, the Type 3 fonts shouldn't be math
fonts.

> I assume people who have published have encountered similar problems.
> Am I on the right track thinking that I have to embed all fonts?

Well, you don't have to, but you really should, esp. in the case of a
book for a publisher.

> How do I do this with the pdflatex that comes with tetex-3.0?

It looks like you already are embedding the fonts. I'm just worried 
about the math fonts.

> 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.

It really sounds like you have Type 3 fonts embedded where you should 
have Type 1 fonts, so I would first try to figure out where the Type 3 
fonts are coming from.

Regards,
Christopher Pinon