Re: multiple font embedding with includegraphics and pdf


"Steven Endres" <stevenendres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OqudnQyFKfS8PkPeRVn-oA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Tim Arnold" <tiarno@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:drlvp6$8bf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I've got a large book with many graphics which are included with the
>> graphicx package. Each included graphic contains text in the form of
> titles,
>> labels, etc.
>> The text in each graphic is displayed using the same fonts, which are not
>> embedded by the graphics-generating program.
>>
>> The resulting pdf must have all fonts embedded, but when I embed them
>> (ps2pdf) I seem to be getting multiply-embedded fonts. And I know the
>> file
>> size has to increase with font-embedding, but it increases drastically.

<snip>

> I don't consider myself an expert on font embedding at all, but have had
> very nice results using PSfrag to make my fonts in graphics match the rest
> of the document. You may just want to try a test with that package to see
> if
> it helps.
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfrag/
>
> The document "Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX has some
> additional information on using this package (pp. 45--49) and may also be
> of
> help:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
>
> Steven

Thanks Steven,
I had never read the doc on psfrag; interesting and useful package. However,
in my case, the doc I'm generating is documentation for the computer program
itself--so the output must look the same as the reader/user will see it.

--Tim Arnold


.

Relevant Pages