pdftops eps font issue

[Alberto Priore]

Hi Paul

I've posted all this questions:
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6612132/pdftops-eps-font-issue (1 reply)
 http://forums.adobe.com/thread/874427 (2 replies)

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/201107.mbox/browser
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replies)

> EAAFD+HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdCnO_99-Identify-H;

>>The 'EAAFD+' means that the font has been cut-down (subsetted) into
>>an optimised/incomplete font that only contains the parts and glyphs
>>necessary for the current document.

How can I tell to pdftops to do not cut fonts?

> pdftops file.pdf -eps file.eps

>>I've re-read the manpage and it pdftops (part of
>>xpdf/poppler) defaults to embedding all fonts that have also been
>>embedded in the PDF.  Are there any options to "Apache FOP" that allow
>>tweaking of the /PDF/ embedding settings?  'pdftoeps' Manpage:

In FOP the embedding of fonts is default.
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#embedding

>>Out of interest, what is the EPS for?  Most software developed in the
>>last five years works better with just reading PDF files directly
>>(Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape included).

I need to create it for a client that has his editorial system that allow
only to import eps files.

On 10 July 2011 14:32, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Alberto Priore wrote:
>
> Hello Alberto, I don't have a complete answer for you, but possibly
> some of the following may give you a lead.  I notice that the same
> question appears to have been reported at:
>
>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6612132/pdftops-eps-font-issue (1
> reply)
>  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/874427 (2 replies)
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/201107.mbox/browser(10 replies)
>
> If you find a solution, please could you follow-up to all of the
> locations at the end so that everyone knows the issue has been
> resolved and sorted by a suggestion from elsewhere.
>
> > PDF with Apache FOP in Linux then I need to convert into an eps.
>
> EPS is PostScript with %%meta-data the pages.  PDF is a
> subset/superset of PostScript and is normally rendered purely with
> PostScript macros for the PDF operators.
>
> All three are text-based formats, which you can open in a text-editor.
>
> > EAAFD+HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdCnO_99-Identify-H;
>
> The 'EAAFD+' means that the font has been cut-down (subsetted) into
> an optimised/incomplete font that only contains the parts and glyphs
> necessary for the current document.
>
> > pdftops file.pdf -eps file.eps
>
> I've re-read the manpage and it pdftops (part of
> xpdf/poppler) defaults to embedding all fonts that have also been
> embedded in the PDF.  Are there any options to "Apache FOP" that allow
> tweaking of the /PDF/ embedding settings?  'pdftoeps' Manpage:
>
>  http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/man1/pdftops.1.html
>
> > I'm sure that in Windows XP I have all the fonts
>
> It could be that Illustrator is wanting to allow you to edit the file
> (something that the embedded subsetted font is unsuitable for).  In
> this case it's asking for HelveticaNeue rather than Helvetica.
>
> Out of interest, what is the EPS for?  Most software developed in the
> last five years works better with just reading PDF files directly
> (Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape included).
>
>        -Paul
>
>
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