How to use and not embed the PdfBase14 fonts?
Hi all! I want to generate PDF documents that use the standard PDF fonts (Helvetica, Times-Roman, and Courier) and not to embed these fonts. With my former installation (TexLive-2003 and a ConText distribution of last autumn) this was possible by using the following lines in the praeambel: \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[postscript][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt] (In addition, I had to configure pdfTeX by "updmap --setoption pdftexDownloadBase14 false"). After I upgraded to TexLive-2004 this does no longer work! I found that the typescript "adobekb" was replaced by "type-akb". Yet, the encoding "texnansi" seems no longer to be available (Metafont complains that it can not find: texnansi-utmr8a). Changing the encoding to "ec" that still is available yields: \usetypescript[type-akb][ec] \usetypescript[postscript][ec] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt] Yet, using these lines in the praeambel results in a document that uses the NimbusSanL-Regu font, that clearly has to be embedded. Does anyone know how the standard PDF fonts can be used while not being embedded? Thanks for your attention, Stefan
Stefan Wachter wrote:
I want to generate PDF documents that use the standard PDF fonts (Helvetica, Times-Roman, and Courier) and not to embed these fonts. With my former installation (TexLive-2003 and a ConText distribution of last autumn) this was possible by using the following lines in the praeambel:
\usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[postscript][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt]
(In addition, I had to configure pdfTeX by "updmap --setoption pdftexDownloadBase14 false").
After I upgraded to TexLive-2004 this does no longer work!
I found that the typescript "adobekb" was replaced by "type-akb". Yet, the encoding "texnansi" seems no longer to be available (Metafont complains that it can not find: texnansi-utmr8a). Changing the encoding to "ec" that still is available yields:
texnansi tfm files are not distributed (actually, what gets distributed is some mix of encodings) so you need to generate them using texfont
\usetypescript[type-akb][ec] \usetypescript[postscript][ec] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt]
Yet, using these lines in the praeambel results in a document that uses the NimbusSanL-Regu font, that clearly has to be embedded.
you can make a private map file, say myfonts.map, and load that one with \loadmapfile[myfonts.map] lines with as first char an '=' will replace other map entries, so that way you can overrule defaults
Does anyone know how the standard PDF fonts can be used while not being embedded?
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Hi Hans and Hartmut,
thanks for the information. I looked at the type-akb.tex file and found
that the fonts phvb8t, phvbo8t, phvr8t, and phvro8t are used.
I wrote the following small map file (named embed.map):
= phvb8t Helvetica-Bold "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont"
Hi Hans,
after a lot of experiments I could generate a PDF document where the
built-in Helvetica font is used. Yet, there are some open questions:
1. The \loadmapfile makro seems not to work. I tried lots of variants.
Only direct use of the pdfTex makro \pdfmapfile was successful.
2. In the praeambel I specify the enconding to be "ec". Yet, in the map
file I had to define a mapping for an 8r encoded font!
3. Texexec shows some warnings during the run. Maybe they are related to
the second question. The warnings are:
Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-courier.map): cannot open font map file
Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-helvetica.map): cannot open font map file
Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-times.map): cannot open font map file
Can you please have a short look on these questions?
Best regards,
--Stefan
Here is my test document:
\enableregime[il1]
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\usetypescript[adobekb][ec]
\usetypescript[postscript][ec]
\setupbodyfont[postscript,sans,12pt]
\mainlanguage[de]
\setupheadertexts[]
\pdfoptionpdfminorversion 4
\starttext
\pdfmapfile{=embed.map}%
This is a test.
\stoptext
And here is the map file embed.map:
%phvb8t Helvetica-Bold "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont"
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