[Groff] Question re: embedded fonts

[jon arbuckle]

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006, Clarke Echols wrote,

> I have typeset several books (novels) for a friend using Times Roman
> font set and groff with PostScript output.  The printing plant is
> asking for embedded fonts, and I don't see anything but what I think
> is the font metrics files in /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devps in
> files TR, TI, TB, and TBI.
> <snip>
> The folks at the printing plant prefer that the fonts be embedded
> with the PS or PDF file so there is no risk of mis-matched layout.

Your printers are probably right in demanding embedded fonts
(mine do too).  However, you are saying that they will also accept
*PDF* files.  This should make the embedding easier.  First, install an
up-to-date copy of ghostscript (you probably already do).

   Assuming you have only used the `standard' Postscript fonts in your
document (Times, Helvetica, Courier, etc.), you can simply run ghostscript
on your .ps file.  If you have generated my_doc.ps, run the command:

ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -r720 my_doc.ps

and you should get a my_doc.pdf file with embedded fonts.  The key
here is the /prepress option, which causes *all* fonts to be embedded
in the PDF (usually the standard fonts are not embedded).  Read more
on ps2pdf in the ghostscript documentation for more info.

You certainly *don't* need cm-super for anything in groff.  Leave
the self-flagellations to the TeX guys.

By the way, groff doesn't contain font files for any of the standard
PostScript fonts; the TR, TB, etc. are only the metrics, as you
found out.

Ciao.

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