Hello, Always be careful with pdf2ps. If one converts PS to PDF, information is lost - this is one of the reasons that the PDF file is usually smaller in size than the PS file. So it is technically not always possible to perfectly reconstruct a PS from a PDF. So be careful, especially if the material is to be printed professionally.
Some tips and tricks that I find useful: - EPS has a built-in JPEG support. If you use the program "jepg2ps", the resulting EPS will be only marginally larger than the original JPEG file. - Convert EPS to PDF with ps2pdf - Use pdfcrop to cut off irrelevant whitespace from a PDF - If you want to use matlab figures (or from a similar software), then saving the output as PS gives you some more control if you want to make a PDF - but at the expense of more work for you. Note that scilab (an open-source and free matlab-like software) has very poor support for EPS and PDF, but it is still workable. - Use pdfpages.sty to manipulate external PDFs directly into your latex document - Use pdftk if you want to do fancy things with a PDF file (merging, splitting, nup printing, etc) Cheers, Wilfred ________________________________ From: Adam Russell <aruss...@cs.uml.edu> To: xetex@tug.org Sent: Friday, 4 May 2012, 3:02 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] how do I embed fonts into a a xelatex generated pdf? On 5/3/12 1:10 PM, xetex-requ...@tug.org wrote: >> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:08:00 +0200 >> From: Zdenek Wagner<zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> >> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms<xetex@tug.org> >> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] how do I embed fonts into a a xelatex generated >> pdf? >> Message-ID: >> <cac1phybau4bh1tl+yp+expohjumnq1ms56gh9map-lzdygz...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-2" >> >> Short answer: you have to buy Helvetica. >> >> Long answer: There are basic 15 PS fonts and basic 35 PDF fonts that >> must be according to the specification available everywhere. However, >> this requirement is broken even in Adobe products (the author of the >> specification) and it is quite common to see different versions of >> Times and Helvetica with different metrics (it cost me some money and >> damaged output to discover this crucial problem). It is therefore >> good (and required by DTP studios and printer houses) to embed all >> fonts. These 35 basic fonts are commercial and thus cannot be >> distributed with TeX. There are free replacements (from URW and other >> vendors). Now you have two options: >> >> 1. Embed the replacement fonts possibly losing quality >> 2. Do not embed the font and hope that the user has either the >> commercial font or a replacement font that will not be worse. >> >> Of course option 1 is better unless you know that the user has the >> commercial font with exactly the same metrics as you. You have to look >> into the manual of your TeX distribution how to instruct it to embed >> all fonts (it is done by updmap-sys in TeX Live). If you want to have >> fonts with better quality, you can consider using TeX Gyre Heros >> instead of Helvetica. >> >> Still one problem remains. You may include images created by tools as >> gnuplot or inkscape that insert texts in Helvetica but do not embed >> the font. It will need some tweaking depending on the tool. > Ah! That is exactly my problem I now realize. My paper in and of itself > does not use Helvetica but I am using > gnuplot to generate figures. So, I guess I am going with (2). The use of > Helvetica in the figures is so > small that hopefully any difference will be so small as to be > undetectable. I am willing to bet that Helvetica is a > common enough font and gnuplot is a common enough tool that this > shouldn't be an issue. We'll see... > And also, just for the record, I found these directions on embedding > fonts to be very clear: > http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/public_files/embeded_fonts.php > Thank you very much for the help! One final thing. I just discovered a clever workaround. For the entire document run pdf2ps pdf2ps document.pdf and the run this command on the ps file ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress document.ps This seems to work for embedding the fonts without having to regenerate anything! -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
-------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
