[R] eps file with embedded font

[Simone Gabbriellini]

thanks Jonathan,

I was wondering about the difference between your second option and
the Ted one: isn't it the same thing?

regards,
Simone

2009/9/4 Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>:
> A couple of other ideas about embedding fonts and setting bounding
> boxes.  These all work on Linux, so in theory they should also work on
> OS X, although I have no idea how.
>
> 1. For setting bounding boxes, you can use gv, which is a PostScript
> viewer.  As you move the pointer around, you can see the numbers in a
> side panel.
>
> 2. Another way to do it is to set them automatically using ghostscript.
> (This is based on a suggested made by Brian Ripley.)  Here is a script
> that does this for me:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cat $1 | sed -r -e "s/BoundingBox:[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+/`gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q`/" > temp.eps
> gs -sDEVICE=bbox -sNOPAUSE -q $1 $showpage -c quit 2> bb.out
> sed -e"1 r bb.out" temp.eps > $1
> /bin/rm bb.out
> /bin/rm temp.eps
>
> The idea is to remove the bounding box that exists and replace it.
> You run it by saying
> bbox myfile.eps
> (It doesn't matter if it is .ps instead of eps at this point.)
>
> 3. Finally, there is a pdf viewer called xpdf, which will embed fonts
> by default if you use it to print to a file.  (I'm not sure it still
> does this by default, but there is an option for it.)  So first
> convert to pdf, then read with xpdf, then print to file (and then, if
> necessary, convert back to pdf again).  This is what I did for my last
> book; even though I used standard PostScript fonts, the publisher
> insisted that they all be embedded.
>
> Xpdf comes with a thing called pdffonts that will list the fonts in a
> pdf file and tell you whether they are embedded.
>
> Jon
> --
> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>