Re: Mathematica EPS to Distiller PDF Font Problem Solved (?)
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- Subject: [mg34061] Re: Mathematica EPS to Distiller PDF Font Problem Solved (?)
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:00:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, the problem *was* that the true type fonts had a copyright restriction that hinders the distiller to use the tt-fonts. a) the copyright restriction is removed from the actual tt-fonts b) the type1 fonts never had this restriction and when the distiller find the type1 fonts all works fine -- atleast on a MS-Windows machine Regards Jens aes wrote: > > There have been a number of postings in the past, from me and others, about a > problem in which Distiller 5.0 will refuse to distill (convert to PDF) documents > produced by Word, PowerPoint, Textures, etc., if these documents contain EPS > graphics that were originally produced by and exported from Mathematica. > > The problem seemed to have something to do with complexities of legal > authorizations to reproduce or imbed certain Math 1 fonts used by Mathematica as > default fonts for graphics (although this may not be actually correct, and my > understanding of the exact details is limited). > > The problem did not occur in Acrobat/Distiller 3.0, and could be worked around > in 5.0 by opening the EPS graphics in Illustrator and converting any text in > Math 1 fonts to Helvetica or some other font before inserting them into any > documents. > > I've recently received a communication from Peter Heemeijer, University of > Amsterdam, saying that the problem appears to be solved by opening the > "Settings" menu in Distiller and adding the folder > > Mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1 > > to the list of "Font Locations". This works for him in Distiller 4.0, and > worked for me with Distiller 5.0, at least in one quick test [1]. > > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has anything to add to this. > > [1] The test was done on a Mac PB G3, generating a simple plot in Mathematica > 4.1, Exporting it as "EPS", inserting it into a TeX document using Textures, and > printing the typeset document to PDF using the AdobePS printer driver that comes > with Acrobat 5.0.