Re: Publishing problem with fonts

Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>A. Drosos wrote:
>
>> System: tetex-3.0 on a Linux system
>>
>> Problem: Have reached the point of publishing a book written in LaTeX.
>> Have generated the pdf file with pdflatex which looks fine on my system
>> and prints fine from my laser printer. On the publisher system it
>> looks fine on screen (acrobat reader 5.0 and 6.0) but on the
>> print-ready version (plate?) a number of fonts (math fonts) are
>> printed on top of one another, framed boxed have lines that cross
>> text and these defects are seen through every page.
>>
>> Publisher cannot handle this and the only solution he recommends is
>> to rewrite the book in Word.
>>
>> I do not want to do this.
>
>At a guess the platemaker or film-unit is expecting PostScript, not PDF,
>and has a plug-in which does a very rudimentary conversion from PDF to
>PS format, garbling the fonts in the process.
>
>Possibly also your system is using the old PK (bitmap) fonts for math,
>although those would also be evident on-screen, as Adobe's PDF reader
>has very poor rendering for bitmap fonts.

the output makes clear that he _is_ using bitmap fonts. however, he
also said he'd looked at it with acrobat reader 6, which does _not_
make a hash of bitmap fonts. (acrobat reader 7 for linux works fine
with bitmaps, too.)

i'm actually interested in how he made pdftex not find the cm maths
fonts: they're there by default in tetex 3.

>Eric's advice to use dvips and GhostScript is very good. Ask your
>publisher if the platemaker/filmsetter will accept PostScript instead
>(and if necessary send them a 1-page test file). Many publishers are
>very weak technologically.

i'm intrigued that you expect that dvips/gs-created pdf would be any
better. why, exactly?
--
Robin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge
.

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