On 7/25/22, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm out of my comfort zone here; expertise from PS/PDF gurus is welcome.
I'm hardly a guru in this realm, but I did have to untangle this problem once, so I have some relevant knowledge. I've found giving ps2pdf the "-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer" flag does the trick. My limited understanding of PDFSETTINGS is that it's an umbrella switch that flips several other switches. I have this comment in my conversion script: # Further, setting PDFSETTINGS to /prepress or /printer automatically sets # - EmbedAllFonts to true # - SubsetFonts to true # - MaxSubsetPct to 100 # - Downsample*Images to false # - MonoImageFilter to /CCITTFaxEncode So there's probably some combination of individual switches that will embed fonts, but -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer works for me, so that's what I use. Font embedding only works with PDF version 1.3 or later. To maximize portability, I force version 1.3 since I don't need any features from later versions. So I can't guarantee that any of the above still holds when generating later PDF versions, but it might at least give you a starting point for experimenting. I've found http://www.volkerschatz.com/tex/hiqpdf.html a useful resource for arcane ps2pdf options.
