Hi folks, I've applied the advice from Deri and Dave appended below.
Updated docs, previewing groff 1.23, can be found at the same URL as before. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/17ftu3z31couf07/AAC_9kq0ZA-Ra2ZhmZFWlLuva?dl=0 Regards, Branden At 2022-07-25T16:20:34+0100, Deri wrote: > The best of both worlds is to produce pdf with groff (hack your script > to add -Tpdf -P-e) and run the resultant pdf through ps2pdf.This will > ensure all fonts are embedded and that they have been subsetted to > save space. At 2022-07-25T12:32:40-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > 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.
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