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ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX?

From iaw4 <ivowel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX?
Date 2011-09-13 18:13 -0700
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Dear ghostscript experts---

[Mac OSX, gs 9.02.]

I have BeraSans-Roman fonts that were originally distributed with
texlive.  I converted them to .otf format and added them to the OSX
10.6 system fonts.  (This only required clicking in the OS.  nice.)

I can use yet another program (R) to produce figures that references
the fonts (via afm metric files):

name                                 type              emb sub uni
object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- ---
---------
ZapfDingbats                         Type 1            no  no  no
11  0
BeraSans-Roman                       Type 1            no  no  no
12  0

The resulting figures display fine on my system with the fonts clearly
and correctly viewable.

now I need to embed the fonts in the pdf file.  presumably, I would do
this with

ps2pdf -DPDFSETTINGS=/prepress infile.pdf outfile.pdf

alas, somehow I need to convince gs to use my otf font files.  first,
I created a Fontmap file in the local directory, but this seems to be
ignored (garbage in it does not trigger an error).   same result for /
usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.02/Fontmap.

how do I convince ps2pdf that BeraSans-Roman is fvsr8a.otf, and to
embed the font in the pdf file?

advice appreciated.

/iaw

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ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX? iaw4 <ivowel@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 18:13 -0700
  Re: ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX? Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2011-09-14 08:19 +0200
  Re: ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-14 07:54 +0100
    Re: ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX? iaw4 <ivowel@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 09:09 -0700
  Re: ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX? PGAGA <grifwood@glinx.com> - 2011-09-14 12:41 -0700

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