PDF reader that lets one override fonts

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/6 Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>:
>> It is the GuttmanYad fonts that are illegible. All four are embedded.
> Yeah, I see that. I was hoping they were all 'no' and then you could find the
> fonts you want, rename them (to what the pdf wants) and drop them into
> ~/.fonts which should work.
>
> Another tack:
> I found a link:http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000235
> "Handy hint: You can run pdf2ps on existing PDF files and it will change
> embedded fonts to embedded font subsets, usually reducing the file size
> substantially." -- not 100% what you need, but it has a few hints.

I tried that, naturally. It took the 200 kb PDF and turned it into a
4.4 MB PS file, and preserved that terrible font as an image!

> So, perhaps pdf2ps then backwards, ps2pdf might just do it? I'm hoping for an
> error and a substitution of local fonts.

We should be so lucky.

> They also mention pdfedit (in repos):
> http://pdfedit.petricek.net/user_doc.html#gui_toolbars_text

I'm trying to use pdfedit, but it keeps hanging. I'll keep trying.

> And, here, a glimmer of hope:
> Go to ps, then back with a switch...
> ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true WonderDog.ps
> http://www.linux.com/articles/35022

As the PS file was images, the resulting PDF was images as well
instead of text. So, I tried running ps2pdf directly on the PDF file,
as I know that PDF is a subset of PS. That GutmanYad font is
persistent. It threw some errors, but completed. However, the font
stayed:

hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$ pdffonts chapter1_exp-1.pdf.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap
(tens of these errors)
FHDBRN+SymbolMT-Identity-H           CID TrueType      yes yes yes     26  0
QLXDAR+GuttmanYadLight-Identity-H    CID TrueType      yes yes yes     21  0
UXGOHY+GuttmanYad-Brush-Identity-H   CID TrueType      yes yes yes     11  0
XKKHMO+TimesNewRomanPSMT             TrueType          yes yes no       8  0
Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no      20  0
CISDDW+GuttmanYad-Brush              TrueType          yes yes no      14  0
HASFFT+GuttmanYadLight               TrueType          yes yes no      16  0
Times-Italic                         Type 1            no  no  no      24  0
Times-Bold                           Type 1            no  no  no      18  0
Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap
(tens of these errors)
KNBAAA+MT-Extra-Identity-H           CID TrueType      yes yes yes     48  0
Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap
(tens of these errors)
Helvetica-Bold                       Type 1            no  no  no      60  0
Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap
(tens of these errors)
WVBDTP+TimesNewRomanPSMT-Identity-H  CID TrueType      yes yes yes     68  0
Error: Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap
(tens of these errors)

Dotan Cohen

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