Re: [Groff] Creating Word/rtf output

[Steve Izma]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 07:52:40PM -0700, Clarke Echols wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] Creating Word/rtf output
> 
> ...  My only problem is not being able to embed PS or Type1 fonts
> into the PDF files.  Haven't figured out the magic to do that...
>
> But if the printer has standard PS fonts on their system and I ship
> a PDF using PS font metrics, I think it's supposed to work.  It
> would be nice if there was a nice easy way to load Type1 fonts on
> an Ubuntu Linux system and get real fonts printed on an HP LaserJet
> 4200 (black/white) or 4600 (4-color) like I have.

My experience is that grops always embeds fonts (other than the
basic 35 PostScript ones) in its output and that ps2pdf preserves
this. It appears that you could also get grops to embed any of
the 35 PS fonts by naming them in the download file in the devps
directory, but I've never needed to do this for Times, Helvetica,
etc., in files I've sent to various printshops over the years.

By a "nice easy way", do you mean a single command? I wrap
afmtodit and pfbtops into a shell script that also creates a line
for the download file, but the way you do this depends on how
you've organized .afm and .pfb files and encodings, textmaps,
etc. Since sometimes I get fonts that don't have afms, I need to
download them from Adobe's site, so almost all the difficulty for
me is getting the fonts and related files into the right places.
Is that what you mean by not having a "nice easy way"?

        -- Steve

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