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Re: ps2pdf14 gs otf font embedding under OSX?

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iaw4 wrote:

> 
> 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
Isn't the location for the fontmap file
/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.02/Resources/Init/Fontmap ?

Helge

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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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